Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, Present & FutureJ. Murray, 1857 - 285 páginas |
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... the pointed arch is the leading type , the round or other forms of arch may be admitted freely , but never without a practical reason . I claim , then , for Gothic architecture the liberty 28 On the leading External Features and.
... the pointed arch is the leading type , the round or other forms of arch may be admitted freely , but never without a practical reason . I claim , then , for Gothic architecture the liberty 28 On the leading External Features and.
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... reason why the square head is so general ; but in a staircase , or in a hall , or other room of greater height , or in a house on so lofty a scale as to give scope for it , the pointed arch is at once returned to as the natural form ...
... reason why the square head is so general ; but in a staircase , or in a hall , or other room of greater height , or in a house on so lofty a scale as to give scope for it , the pointed arch is at once returned to as the natural form ...
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... reason to do so . There are many instances in which the mullion must of necessity be omitted ; e . g . in cases where the window serves also as a door , opening into a balcony , terrace , or what not . These amphibious apertures are ...
... reason to do so . There are many instances in which the mullion must of necessity be omitted ; e . g . in cases where the window serves also as a door , opening into a balcony , terrace , or what not . These amphibious apertures are ...
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... to his reason , a danger to which searchers after novelty are somewhat liable . I shall not follow out windows in their many beau- tiful varieties , as bay - windows , oriels , 40 On the leading External Features and.
... to his reason , a danger to which searchers after novelty are somewhat liable . I shall not follow out windows in their many beau- tiful varieties , as bay - windows , oriels , 40 On the leading External Features and.
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... reason . The way in which taste regulates the pitch of roof , is by suiting it to the general feeling of the style . If that feeling be in favour of a horizontal tendency in the general character , the low pitch seems to suggest itself ...
... reason . The way in which taste regulates the pitch of roof , is by suiting it to the general feeling of the style . If that feeling be in favour of a horizontal tendency in the general character , the low pitch seems to suggest itself ...
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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...