Rudimentary Architecture for the Use of Beginners The Orders and Their Æsthetic Principles

_Antæ._—Pilasters, as well as columns, belong to an Order, and in modern practice are frequently substituted indifferently for columns, where the latter would be _engaged_ or at...

Some may think that it is hardly worth while to notice such mere fancies; yet it is surely desirable to attempt to get rid of them by exposing their absurdity, more especially a...

To elucidate this part of our subject at all satisfactorily would require a great number of drawings; accordingly we must make shift as well as we can without them, leaving the...

The capital has two rows of leaves, eight in each row, so disposed that of the taller ones composing the upper row, one comes in the middle, beneath each face of the abacus, and...

How little modern Architects are capable of modifying the Ionic capital, and adapting it to particular circumstances, may be seen in the colonnades of the façade of the British...

Transcriber’s Notes: Underscores “_” before and after a word or phrase indicate _italics_ in the original text. Small capitals have been converted to SOLID capitals. Illustratio...

The _naos_, or _cella_, as it is more usually called, or temple itself, was comparatively small, even where the entire mass was of considerable size, gradual extension of plan b...

ENTASIS.—A slightly convex curvature given in execution to the outline of the shaft of a column, just sufficient to counteract and correct the appearance, or fancied appearance,...

Excepting the terms pycnostyle and aræostyle, which are useful as expressing the greatest degree of closeness or of openness of intercolumniation consistent with well-proportion...

Among the new subjects introduced in this new edition will be found:—The New Plan and Elevation of the BRITISH MUSEUM—NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT—ROYAL EXCHANGE—ARMY AND NAVY CLUB—...