Classical Orders is free. Launch Classical Orders I have spent my working life drawing columns. Mainly Greek, and Roman. Though I have researched ancient Egyptian, Indian, and Chinese for my own edification. The orders are the grammar of building, and for years I treated them as a fixed vocabulary, something to be looked up and applied. Then I started asking where the measure comes from. Why the orders matter to me I came to the classical orders late, and from the outside. I trained at a modern school that frowned on anything classical. The orders were not part of the vocabulary; they were the thing we were supposed to have moved…