The building exterior mattered in itself; like naked skin it was a continuous, self-sufficing, arresting surface… The Parthenon’s skin of columns and roof does not look like a form pushed out from within. In this, the temple gave a clue to Athenian urban form more generally; urban volume came from the play of surfaces.

Sennett R. Flesh and Stone. The Body and the City

in Western Culture. New York, London, 1994. P.39