Temples great and small

Reading another part of the McAlester guide to American architecture. The chapter on Greek Revival styles includes an unexpected math formula.

The first term is the veranda or porch. All of the Euro colonizing powers added porches in different forms when they encountered hot non-Euro climates in India, Africa and the Americas. Most of these buildings had flat roofs or side gables.

The second term is the Greek temple influence, which began in the 1700s along with parallel literary and philosophical obsessions. The Greek Revival gave us government buildings and grandiose mansions, including an especially grandiose government mansion under construction in DC. Temples have a front-gabled tendency.

Equation: Veranda + Greek Revival = Bungalow!