Mnesikles

Mnesikles (Greek Μνησικλής ) was a famous architect in Athens in the 5th century BC, the time of Pericles.

His most famous works are the Propylaea of the Acropolis in Athens, built from 437 BC to 432 BC. Mnesikles showed in his Propylaea as a bold innovator who combined not only the outer Doric order on unprecedented manner with the ionic column position of the procession route. Quoted and integrated elements of temple architecture with its double-wing design, the complicated sequence of rooms that he created an entirely new and based on the viewer Architecture, prepared the subsequent court systems, particularly the Hellenistic period. With its complex designed by optical refinements Torbau he made the first ascent of the Acropolis to a production that culminated in passing through the relatedness to the statue of Phidias Athena Promachos: The visitor's eye was revealed in the input axis of the Torbaues the monumental and golden shiny image of the goddess.