Architecture in Greece

thumb|The Palaestra at Olympia|palaestra at [[Olympia, Greece]] A palaestra or palestra (, or ; ) was any site of a Greek wrestling school in antiquity. Events requiring little space, such as boxing and wrestling, occurred there. Palaistrai functioned both independently and as a part of public gymnasia; a palaestra could exist without a gymnasium, but no gymnasium existed without a palaestra.

thumb|right|Schematic plan of a megaron complex. 1: anteroom, 2: hall (main room), 3: columns in portico and hall. thumb|right|Foundation of the megaron complex at Mycenae, view from the main hall (circular hearth visible in foreground) through the anteroom and porch The megaron (; , , : megara ) was the great hall in very early Mycenean and ancient Greek palace complexes. Architecturally, it was a rectangular hall that was supported by four columns, fronted by an open, two-columned portico, and had a central, open hearth that vented though an oculus in the roof.

French architect, archaeologist and urban planner (1875–1933)

tower houses in the Balkans during the Ottoman period

ancient edifice in Olympia, Greece

architecture of modern times

thumb|300px|Apophyge. An apophyge (Greek , a flying off), in architecture, is the lowest part of the shaft of an Ionic or Corinthian column, or the highest member of its base if the column be considered as a whole. The apophyge is the inverted cavetto or concave sweep, on the upper edge of which the diminishing shaft rests.