Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, Present & FutureJ. Murray, 1857 - 285 páginas |
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... true feeling for characteristic domestic architecture . Up to that time , whatever the style , whether exotic or traditional , we find some remaining traces of re- gard to appearance , some lingering sense of beauty , even in the ...
... true feeling for characteristic domestic architecture . Up to that time , whatever the style , whether exotic or traditional , we find some remaining traces of re- gard to appearance , some lingering sense of beauty , even in the ...
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... true that many of our so - called restorations would have been far better left undone ; that both in repairing and building we have done much which we would gladly undo : true , that our new churches are often very far from carrying out ...
... true that many of our so - called restorations would have been far better left undone ; that both in repairing and building we have done much which we would gladly undo : true , that our new churches are often very far from carrying out ...
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... true , is a drawback in several ways , yet it is not an unmitigated evil . It increases the difficulties of the architect by reducing his stock of precedents , and it renders his work less familiar to the mind of the ordinary observer ...
... true , is a drawback in several ways , yet it is not an unmitigated evil . It increases the difficulties of the architect by reducing his stock of precedents , and it renders his work less familiar to the mind of the ordinary observer ...
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... true , is contemptible enough ; but the practice I am combating has led to the production of multitudes of the vilest abortions which can be conceived , under the name of Gothic houses , and which have done more to bring the cause into ...
... true , is contemptible enough ; but the practice I am combating has led to the production of multitudes of the vilest abortions which can be conceived , under the name of Gothic houses , and which have done more to bring the cause into ...
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... true that many old - fashioned Gothic rooms are gloomy . " It may be so ; and so are many modern rooms which are not Gothic . Many rooms may have been intended to be gloomy , as the cell of the monk , or the prison- chamber in a castle ...
... true that many old - fashioned Gothic rooms are gloomy . " It may be so ; and so are many modern rooms which are not Gothic . Many rooms may have been intended to be gloomy , as the cell of the monk , or the prison- chamber in a castle ...
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Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, Present & Future Sir George Gilbert Scott Vista completa - 1857 |
Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, Present & Future Sir George Gilbert Scott Vista completa - 1858 |
Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, Present & Future Sir George Gilbert Scott Vista completa - 1857 |
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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...