Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, Present & FutureJ. Murray, 1857 - 285 páginas |
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... wall ; to admit air when you want it , without admit- ting wind and wet , which you do not want ; to have free scope for viewing external objects , without need- lessly exposing your rooms from the exterior ; and to do all this in such ...
... wall ; to admit air when you want it , without admit- ting wind and wet , which you do not want ; to have free scope for viewing external objects , without need- lessly exposing your rooms from the exterior ; and to do all this in such ...
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... walls , and their panelled ceilings ; but , so far from their being of necessity dark , no style admits of so large a proportion of window , and in the Eliza- bethan style , which in its windows is essentially the same as its ...
... walls , and their panelled ceilings ; but , so far from their being of necessity dark , no style admits of so large a proportion of window , and in the Eliza- bethan style , which in its windows is essentially the same as its ...
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... wall with continuous window - work ; or , stopping short of that extreme , may use windows of a width which would be destruc- tive to beauty in other styles . the rule , it must be used even for the Characteristics of Buildings . 27.
... wall with continuous window - work ; or , stopping short of that extreme , may use windows of a width which would be destruc- tive to beauty in other styles . the rule , it must be used even for the Characteristics of Buildings . 27.
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... wall which is decidedly unpleasing in any style . It is , however , seldom recollected by the objectors , to what a narrow compass their objection may be re- duced . In the first place , it only applies at all to windows of one class of ...
... wall which is decidedly unpleasing in any style . It is , however , seldom recollected by the objectors , to what a narrow compass their objection may be re- duced . In the first place , it only applies at all to windows of one class of ...
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... wall , or overhang the whole depth of the balcony . They may be made ex- ceedingly beautiful , but should not be too liberally used , or they may import an air of fulsomeness into the design . In public buildings and in houses which ...
... wall , or overhang the whole depth of the balcony . They may be made ex- ceedingly beautiful , but should not be too liberally used , or they may import an air of fulsomeness into the design . In public buildings and in houses which ...
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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...