Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, Present & FutureJ. Murray, 1857 - 285 Seiten |
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... architects themselves who have been engaged in this revival , which has led , in many cases , to an uncertainty and hesitation in their efforts when engaged in secular works . Fifthly , that a thoroughly erroneous impression prevails as ...
... architects themselves who have been engaged in this revival , which has led , in many cases , to an uncertainty and hesitation in their efforts when engaged in secular works . Fifthly , that a thoroughly erroneous impression prevails as ...
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... architects who are engaged in the Gothic revival the paramount duty of rendering it consistent by per- fecting it , and that on a systematic principle , in its domestic and secular branches ; and , finally , to shew to the public that ...
... architects who are engaged in the Gothic revival the paramount duty of rendering it consistent by per- fecting it , and that on a systematic principle , in its domestic and secular branches ; and , finally , to shew to the public that ...
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... architects , I should be grieved at the very thought of paining . I need hardly say that I refer to our highly- gifted and noble - minded Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy , —a man whose every aspiration and sentiment is ...
... architects , I should be grieved at the very thought of paining . I need hardly say that I refer to our highly- gifted and noble - minded Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy , —a man whose every aspiration and sentiment is ...
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... architects strained every nerve to render their cities noble and picturesque , and their country - houses beautiful additions to the scenery which surrounded them . Even the barns of these times are often finer objects , and more ...
... architects strained every nerve to render their cities noble and picturesque , and their country - houses beautiful additions to the scenery which surrounded them . Even the barns of these times are often finer objects , and more ...
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... architects , and the more educated classes of the public , have become conscious of this miserable degradation - this unfathomable ba- thos of the public taste , and many praiseworthy attempts have been made to remedy it . I do not at ...
... architects , and the more educated classes of the public , have become conscious of this miserable degradation - this unfathomable ba- thos of the public taste , and many praiseworthy attempts have been made to remedy it . I do not at ...
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Seite 117 - ... whenever it finds occasion for change in its form or purpose, it submits to it without the slightest sense of loss either to its unity or majesty, — subtle and flexible like a fiery serpent, but ever attentive to the voice of the charmer.
Seite 141 - Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness : he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
Seite 287 - Handbook of Architecture. Being a Concise and Popular Account of the Different Styles prevailing in all Ages and Countries in the World. With a Description of the most remarkable Buildings.
Seite 119 - I am quite assured that all the irregularities that are so beautiful in ancient architecture are the result of certain necessary difficulties, and were never purposely designed ; for to make a building inconvenient for the sake of obtaining irregularity would be scarcely less ridiculous than preparing working drawings for a new ruin. But all these inconsistencies have arisen from this great error, — the plans of buildings are designed to suit the elevation, instead of the elevation being made subservient...
Seite 118 - ... not masked or concealed under one monotonous front, but by their variety in form and outline increasing the effect of the building.
Seite 118 - An architect should exhibit his skill by turning the difficulties which occur in raising an elevation from a convenient plan into so many picturesque beauties; and this constitutes the great difference between the principles of classic and pointed domestic architecture. In the former he would be compelled to devise expedients to conceal these irregularities; in the latter he has only to beautify them.
Seite 4 - It is not too much to say that the ruling theology of the Church of England in the latter half of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century was...
Seite 117 - Undefined in its slope of roof, height of shaft, breadth of arch, or disposition of ground plan, it can shrink into a turret, expand into a hall, coil into a staircase, or spring into a spire, with undegraded grace and unexhausted energy...