Rhythm

Preferences in rhythm type have varied greatly in different architectural periods. Greek ornament, for example, indicates an intense love of small, regular, and perfectly studied rhythms. The Romans, on the other hand, love rhythms of a much freer and more plastic type.Gothic is extraordinarily varied in its rhythmical content. Architects liked to establish many clearly defined and persistent rhythms in their ornaments. Modern architecture, like modern music, varies in its rhythmical ideals from the most clear-cut and regular rhythms to those in which there is a search from such free and so-called natural rhythms that the rhythmical basis is almost entirely lost and the result appears, to many people, amorphous and without meaning.

In the picture below (Parthenon), we can see how Greek architecture use linear elements such as columns and place them