City Architecture Or Designs for Dwelling Houses Stores Hotels Etc
City Architecture Or Designs for Dwelling Houses Stores Hotels Etc
M Marriott Field
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Johnson, is not to be set at naught even in the works of imagination. This last principle was ably advocated by our friend, the late Mr. Loudon, throughout all his excellent architectural works. Columns, with nothing of sufficient importance to support, sham pediments in the centre of long ranges of building roofed the contrary way, steeples riding astride upon the apex of roofs, — are all instances of the violation of this important principle. Having proved that certain proportions are more DE...SIGN IN ARCHITECTURE. 21 pleasing than others, we come next to the question, whether any particular forms are per se essentially more agreeable ? This we cannot answer in the affirmative, except in the arts of painting and sculpture, where nature is the standard. In nature there are superior races of animals, and superior individual types of each race, and it is universally agreed, that the horse is the most elegant in shape of hoofed quadrupeds, the greyhound of dogs, the swan of birds, the rose and honeysuckle of flowers.
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