If you would like to contact me, please send an email to reg@regporter.com.   The Central Plan House –The Doric and Ionic Styles begin to dominate Domestic and Civic Architecture. Resuming our discussion of the early Georgian central plan house as it appeared in the first six decades of the Nineteenth Century, we leave the Greek Revival style and examine the use of two Classical Orders – Doric and Ionic – as they appear on Island houses, interpreted by the hands of the builders.     The Ionic Order appears in the Georgian World. The Ionic Order is the second of the classical orders to appear after Doric. Its most dramatic…

If you would like to contact me, please send an email to reg@regporter.com.   The Central Plan House – continued … For me this post is most exciting because it introduces the description and discussion of the Classical Orders – Doric, Ionic and Corinthian – as they appear on Island houses, interpreted and manipulated by the hands of the builders who employed them. The classical orders were introduced into European architecture through new study and interpretation during the Renaissance, especially through the works of architects like Andrea Palladio’s Four Books on Architecture in 1570, and those of Alberti, Serlio and others. They all wrote books on architecture illustrated with huge, engraved…