Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, Present & FutureJ. Murray, 1857 - 285 páginas |
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... classic architecture ; so much so , that in the most magnificent of its recent productions - St . George's Hall , at Liverpool — every effort has been used ( at least on the show side ) to conceal the means by which the light is ...
... classic architecture ; so much so , that in the most magnificent of its recent productions - St . George's Hall , at Liverpool — every effort has been used ( at least on the show side ) to conceal the means by which the light is ...
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... classic architects resort to the mul- lion as a matter of taste or convenience . I have no- ticed among the new buildings in the neighbourhood of the Bank , that , though built by architects who would cry out loudly against using Gothic ...
... classic architects resort to the mul- lion as a matter of taste or convenience . I have no- ticed among the new buildings in the neighbourhood of the Bank , that , though built by architects who would cry out loudly against using Gothic ...
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... classic styles . These , perhaps , belong chiefly to buildings of the higher order , and are scarcely appropriate excepting in connection with balconies , to which they appear to afford protection . They may be gabled or otherwise , and ...
... classic styles . These , perhaps , belong chiefly to buildings of the higher order , and are scarcely appropriate excepting in connection with balconies , to which they appear to afford protection . They may be gabled or otherwise , and ...
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... classic traditions than the di- rect effect of climate . My own experience of Italy would not lead me to predicate of it any want of necessity for efficient roofing . In my first night under an Italian roof , I was nearly flooded out of ...
... classic traditions than the di- rect effect of climate . My own experience of Italy would not lead me to predicate of it any want of necessity for efficient roofing . In my first night under an Italian roof , I was nearly flooded out of ...
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... classic Renaissance of the six- teenth century aimed at reproducing Roman villas , such as have since been excavated at Pompeii , but that we wish to revive the artistic style of our indigenous architecture , applying it freely , and ...
... classic Renaissance of the six- teenth century aimed at reproducing Roman villas , such as have since been excavated at Pompeii , but that we wish to revive the artistic style of our indigenous architecture , applying it freely , and ...
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Página 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.
Página 141 - Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness : he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 118 - ... not masked or concealed under one monotonous front, but by their variety in form and outline increasing the effect of the building.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...