History
On Name
The Five Orders of Classical Architecture
The public buildings of the ancient
Greeks and Romans were almost all designed using the five orders of architecture.
The orders were initially developed by
the Greeks. The Greeks built few public buildings other than temples, and
the basic form of a Greek temple, the main sanctuary or "Naos" surrounded
on all four sides by a columned portico, is well-known to most people. The columns
of the portico would all be of the same design, and would conform to one of
three basic types, the Doric , the Ionic and the Corinthian. The Romans, in
their temples and other public buildings, used all three of the Greek orders,
together with two others of their own devising, the Tuscan and the Composite
Orders.
The Doric Order
The oldest and simplest of the three orders of classical Greek architecture,
characterized by heavy, fluted columns with plain saucer-shaped capitals and
no base.
Developed on the mainland among the Dorian people and was the most common
style in Greece from the 7C onwards. The columns, which had twenty flutes rested
directly on the stylobate without bases; the capitals were plain. The entablature
consisted of three parts, one above the other: the architrave, the frieze and
the cornice.
Reason for using the name Doric Capital Corp.
A Doric Capital has a high architectural vantage point. The
capital is the contact point between the column and the roof that provides
shelter. From an investment management perspective we see merit in having
a vantage point which gives us a broad perspective of market trends, supports
a structure that provides shelter from volatile markets and incorporates a
process that goes back to basics and can be kept simple.
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