Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, Present & FutureJ. Murray, 1857 - 285 Seiten |
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... kind that so much knowledge and skill should not have been directed to the adaptation of the noble style in which he was working to the genuine require- ments of the nineteenth century . A justly popular writer on architecture somewhere ...
... kind that so much knowledge and skill should not have been directed to the adaptation of the noble style in which he was working to the genuine require- ments of the nineteenth century . A justly popular writer on architecture somewhere ...
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... kind of difficulty in translating any idea we learn from works of its later stages back into the purer taste of its earlier days ; a process which adds novelty and freshness to familiar types . I do not advocate any extreme carefulness ...
... kind of difficulty in translating any idea we learn from works of its later stages back into the purer taste of its earlier days ; a process which adds novelty and freshness to familiar types . I do not advocate any extreme carefulness ...
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... In short , if the mind of the architect is fully imbued with the spirit of the style , he will never be at a loss for resources to D meet any accidental requirements of this or any other kind Characteristics of Buildings . 33.
... In short , if the mind of the architect is fully imbued with the spirit of the style , he will never be at a loss for resources to D meet any accidental requirements of this or any other kind Characteristics of Buildings . 33.
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Sir George Gilbert Scott. meet any accidental requirements of this or any other kind . In mullioned windows there are several different varieties of construction . First , the ordinary stone or wood mullion , shewing similarly without ...
Sir George Gilbert Scott. meet any accidental requirements of this or any other kind . In mullioned windows there are several different varieties of construction . First , the ordinary stone or wood mullion , shewing similarly without ...
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... kind of glazing in staircase win- dows , and even in the upper portions of transomed windows where plate - glass is used below . I would aim , in the construction of the sashes or casements , and in the mode of glazing , as in other ...
... kind of glazing in staircase win- dows , and even in the upper portions of transomed windows where plate - glass is used below . I would aim , in the construction of the sashes or casements , and in the mode of glazing , as in other ...
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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...