Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . pylaea at Athens (Fig. 88), where, in order to get the width neces-sary for such an important entrance way, the two center columns aregiven this wide spacing. The Greeks, as has already been said,placed the triglyph at the very corner of the frieze; and, as the metopeis invariably square, it then becomes impossible for the center of thetriglyph to come over the center of the column in either elevation, as X47 15() STUDY OF THE ORDERS the placing of the latter in relation to and in plane with the face of thefrieze
Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . pylaea at Athens (Fig. 88), where, in order to get the width neces-sary for such an important entrance way, the two center columns aregiven this wide spacing. The Greeks, as has already been said,placed the triglyph at the very corner of the frieze; and, as the metopeis invariably square, it then becomes impossible for the center of thetriglyph to come over the center of the column in either elevation, as X47 15() STUDY OF THE ORDERS the placing of the latter in relation to and in plane with the face of thefrieze above is a more inij)ortant consideration. This causes thecolumns at the corner of the l>uil(lini> to come closer to each other thananywhere el^»e along the colonnade, and the effect itself is neitherunpleasant nor very apparent, this extra strengthening of the cornerof the building or the end of the colonnade seeming natiual and to bedemanded by the eye of the observer. By again referring to Fig. 88,the fa9ade of the Propyltea at Athens forming a six-columned entrance. Pig. 88. The Propylapa. Athens. portico, the usual methods of spacing the Greek Doric order is amplyillustrated. The central space, the principal entrance to the Acropolisabove, demanded a wider opening than that given by the monotri-glyphic intercolunmiation, therefore the builders very naturally in-creased this center opening by making the .spacing of the columns ditri-glyphic. The two spaces on either side of this are laid out on theregular monotriglyphic .system of intercolunmiation, as will be readilyseen; while the two outside spaces, coming at the corner of the build- 148
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