Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Illustrated Architecture Dictionary
Hexastyle
HECK sa stile
Alternate name: exastyle
Having six columns, as at one end or at both ends of a portico
Hexastyle buildings had six columns and were the standard facade in canonical Greek Doric architecture between the archaic period 600ó550 B.C up to the Age of Pericles 450ó430 B.C.
Tetrastyle - four columns
Octostyle - eight columns
Decastyle - ten columns
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