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 600—550 B.C up to the Age of Pericles 450—430 B.C.
Tetrastyle - four columns
Octastyle - eight columns Also spelled less commonly octostyle
Decastyle - ten columns
Examples:
- Illustration above: Hexastyle - Maison Carrée Temple at Nimes, France
- Hexastyle - Erectheion, Acropolis, Athens, Greece
- Hexastyle - Temple of Hera, , Valley of the Temples, Agrigento, Sicily
- Hexastyle - Temple of Concordia, Valley of the Temples, Agrigento, Sicily
- Octastyle - Parthenon, Athens, Greece
