Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, Present & FutureJ. Murray, 1857 - 285 Seiten |
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... few simple mouldings . In this style , as in all preceding it , the great principle holds good , that no mean or contemptible architecture exists : from the palace to the cottage , 4 The present state of Domestic Architecture.
... few simple mouldings . In this style , as in all preceding it , the great principle holds good , that no mean or contemptible architecture exists : from the palace to the cottage , 4 The present state of Domestic Architecture.
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... means complete . Our ecclesiastics , at the Restoration , in many cases at- tempted to perpetuate the old style of building , and in the rural districts the retention of the old forms was very general throughout the seventeenth , and ...
... means complete . Our ecclesiastics , at the Restoration , in many cases at- tempted to perpetuate the old style of building , and in the rural districts the retention of the old forms was very general throughout the seventeenth , and ...
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... mean- ness when reduced to its simpler elements " . I need hardly say that we want a style which will stand this ... means let us do so ; but if not , let us endeavour to develope it out of that of some former period which we find to ...
... mean- ness when reduced to its simpler elements " . I need hardly say that we want a style which will stand this ... means let us do so ; but if not , let us endeavour to develope it out of that of some former period which we find to ...
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... typed . d Let it not be imagined that I mean by this that the ecclesias- tical branch of our work is anything like complete . On the con- There remains , however , a great work before us 12 The Revival of Pointed Architecture.
... typed . d Let it not be imagined that I mean by this that the ecclesias- tical branch of our work is anything like complete . On the con- There remains , however , a great work before us 12 The Revival of Pointed Architecture.
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... means of lighting the finest Greek temples are still a mystery . In Ro- man buildings it assumes a more definite position , but still seems rather admitted as a necessary in- truder than a legitimate part of the architecture . It is in ...
... means of lighting the finest Greek temples are still a mystery . In Ro- man buildings it assumes a more definite position , but still seems rather admitted as a necessary in- truder than a legitimate part of the architecture . It is in ...
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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...