Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, Present & FutureJ. Murray, 1857 - 285 páginas |
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... tion ? Look at the houses which grow up like mush- rooms round the Crystal Palace , and which appear wherever a needy landowner begins to let out his ground on building leases : are they not perfect plague- spots on the landscape ...
... tion ? Look at the houses which grow up like mush- rooms round the Crystal Palace , and which appear wherever a needy landowner begins to let out his ground on building leases : are they not perfect plague- spots on the landscape ...
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... tion . It is the absence of anything to excite interest and to enlist the feelings of the heart , which has been the great cause of the present degradation of our ver- nacular architecture ; and it is a happy circumstance , that the ...
... tion . It is the absence of anything to excite interest and to enlist the feelings of the heart , which has been the great cause of the present degradation of our ver- nacular architecture ; and it is a happy circumstance , that the ...
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... tion , though not so abundant as to be familiar , are sufficiently so to remove all difficulty in learning the style , and are so manifestly superior in point of beauty to those of later periods , as to leave no question in the minds of ...
... tion , though not so abundant as to be familiar , are sufficiently so to remove all difficulty in learning the style , and are so manifestly superior in point of beauty to those of later periods , as to leave no question in the minds of ...
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... to making them of the right degree of lightness for any purpose or situa- tion ; indeed , this is so obvious , that it is scarcely worth discussing , and I must apologise for having said 26 On the leading External Features and.
... to making them of the right degree of lightness for any purpose or situa- tion ; indeed , this is so obvious , that it is scarcely worth discussing , and I must apologise for having said 26 On the leading External Features and.
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... tion are , so far as this is evident , satisfactory to the instinct of common sense , and may even pass for beauties , but they have no necessary connection with beauty or harmony of form , though , by a happy co- incidence , they often ...
... tion are , so far as this is evident , satisfactory to the instinct of common sense , and may even pass for beauties , but they have no necessary connection with beauty or harmony of form , though , by a happy co- incidence , they often ...
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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...