ABSTRACT
We are not talking here about classical 'order' in the sense of a code for architectural composition in antiquity or from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The Doric, Corinthian, Ionic, Tuscan orders, if we sometimes refer to them, do not interest us for their value as a cultural code, but for the geometrical structure. Fundamental and permanent rules seem to govern the interdependence of the elements of architectural form. Buildings and urban groupings are always more or less structured. What is this order?
