Who: architect was Iktinos What: The Parthenon, greatest Greek temple. Temple of Athena Parthenos. When: 447-438 BCE. Where: Athens, Greece, Acropolis of Athens. Why: built due to a century-long effort by Greek architects to design a building with perfect proportions. Influenced by philosopher Pythagoras of Samos, who believed that beauty resided in harmonic numerical ratios. How: the dimensions were calculated in terms of a fixed proportional scheme. A all- encompassing mathematical formula, gave a perfect result.
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