A context-free grammar that generates classical
order edifices that are of hierarchical design
and the grammar is hierarchical too. Thus The view
expressed by Charles Perrault and Germain Bofferand
that finds interrelationships between architecture,
rhetoric and language is confirmed. 1.
1
"Classical Rhetoric and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe",
Caroline van Eck, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007, p. 191