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Classicism

The architectural vocabulary that has shaped Western architecture ever since ancient Greece. characterised by a set of compositional rules and architectural elements, in particular, columns and orders. It is a language that has continually reinvented itself, providing scope for successive generations to explore the fundamentals of design.

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