An imprudence it may be on my part to declare that the Greek Doric temple has corners of objectionable design, but I am taking the risk, in the hope that the learned reader will not take offense.

It is known that the shape of the temple comes from the primitive hut, Adam’s house in Paradise, the shack with a dual-pitched covering: the constructive solution with a simpler, cheaper, and more efficient geometry, harnessed to obtain a dwelling protected against rain. The Greek temple roof has everything to gain from the extreme geometric purity of the dual-pitched, gabled form, which is much more straighforward than a hipped roof. But this very simplicity presents a problem which over the course of history has obsessed architects: the radical distinction between lateral facades, where expression is only through the edge or the eave, and short facades, where a triangular pediment inevitably appears...[+]