Digital field trip Assignment

This week you will take a digital field trip to view the Ancient Greece Architecture Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Located in New York, the Met offers one of the United States’ most diverse and largest collections of art in the world. Your visit to the digital archive will help you develop your understanding of ancient Greek architectural forms, and provide key details about the contexts that these forms emerged from.

For this assignment you will need to:

Read the Lecture for the week
Engage in weekly Discussions to help develop ideas
Visit the Met Archive at: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grarc/hd_grarc.htm (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Produce a two-page reflection assignment (see description below)
For your reflection assignment for this week, please select one primary example from the archive and address the following in a two-page reflection assignment:

Describe the example you have selected and provide the specific URL and the image
Explain the origins and context of the example
Include examples from the textbook this week that help develop your analysis of the work and its context
Provide a link to a contemporary architecture work to help discuss the influence that ancient Greece continues to have on contemporary cultural patterns

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Ancient Greek Architecture advances from outstanding artwork that was extremely precise and to the point. The Greek political leadership focused on the promotion of cultural practices including architecture. The architectural design that the Ancient Greeks developed has been adopted in the modern world over the years. This entails the two principals of archaic and classical architecture: Doric and ionic. The former is made up of a capital that is composed of two segments with a flat slab and no base while the latter has got three segments, and the capital rests on the entablature (Jokilehto, 2007). This architectural work can be found here http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grarc/hd_grarc.htm.
The Doric Column architectural design represents one of the 5 orders of classical artwork. Currently, this simple column can be seen reinforcing numerous front Porches across the United States. In commercial and public buildings, notably the public architectural works in Washington, the Doric Column approach is the defining characteristic of Neoclassical building style. A Doric Column features extremely plain and straightforward appearance, considerably simpler that the subsequent Ionic as well as Corinthian Column designs. Moreover, a Doric Column is heavier and thicker than…