“This constant oscillation in the reading of figure-ground is heightened further by the memory of the trabeated system to which the Doric columns allude.”

“Hence this architecture is called architecture of the beam, or, in more formal language, trabeated architecture.”

“The Romans also inherited the trabeated stone frame from the Greeks of southern Italy and continued to build temples and other public buildings with this type of construction into the 3rd century ce.”