Ictinus

Ictinus (ĭktī`nəs), fl. 2d half of 5th cent. B.C., one of the greatest architects of Greece. His celebrated work is the Parthenon (447–432 B.C.) upon the acropolis at Athens, which he built with the architect Callicrates as associate. Ictinus also built the temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, near Phigalia, c.430 B.C. and is said to have rebuilt the Telesterion at Eleusis.

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Ictinus

5th century bc, Greek architect, who designed the Parthenon with Callicrates

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Ictinus 

Ancient Greek architect of the second half of the fifth century B.C.

Ictinus built the Parthenon with Callicrates (447–438 B.C.). Ictinus also built the Odeon of Pericles in Athens; the temple of Apollo in Bassae (c. 430 B.C.), which first used the Corinthian capital and order as an element of tectonic decor; and the Teles-trion in Eleusis (430’s B.C.; completed in the late fifth century B.C. in altered form). Ictinus made innovative use of the traditional means of architectural orders to create new forms. His architecture is marked by plasticity and an organic fusion of Doric and Ionic forms.

REFERENCE

Vseobshchaia istoriia arkhitektury, vol. 2, book 1. Moscow, 1949.