The orders of architecture were developed for use on buildings supported
with posts and beams (called trabeated construction). An order of architecture
consists of a column (post) and an entablature (beam). Although the forms
of the Ionic Order used on the Fiss, Doerr, & Carroll building originated
in the trabeated buildings of ancient Greece, the use of the orders of architecture
superimposed on piers and arches (called arcuated construction) was a Roman
development. The second story of the Colosseum, built in Rome in the first
century AD, is the most famous ancient example in which a wall of piers and
arches is articulated with an Ionic order.
