2024年9月5日 · Browse this illustrated guide to find column types, styles, and designs through the centuries, beginning with the Greek types — Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian — and their use in American homes. With a plain capital and a fluted shaft, Doric is the earliest and most simple of the Classical column styles developed in ancient Greece.

2021年9月7日 · Different types of architectural columns are used throughout the world for both decorative and structural purposes. Read this page for an in-depth view of both classical and modern types of columns.

2023年9月26日 · What Are the Different Column Styles? There are many different types of columns in architecture. These types are often called orders, and some of the most famous of them are the classical orders of the Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, …

2024年2月16日 · Whether it’s the majestic presence of Mughal columns or the spiritual reverence of Hindu temple columns, each types of column adds its own unique flair to the architectural landscape, contributing to the beauty and legacy of India’s built environment.

Coming down to the present from Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman civilization, the architectural orders are the styles of classical architecture, each distinguished by its proportions and characteristic profiles and details, and most readily recognizable by the type of column employed.

Column, in architecture, a vertical element, usually a rounded shaft with a capital and a base, which in most cases serves as a support. A column may also be nonstructural, used for a decorative purpose or as a freestanding monument.

A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column is a compression member.