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Vitruvius Pollio 41x1l
The Ten Books on Architecture is written by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, an author of Roman Origin, an architect and engineer who has served as artilleryman in the military offices. Probably the only surviving book on architecture from classical antiquity, this treatise on architecture states that a structure must exhibit the three qualities – it mu.. 4xl1f
Thomas Roger Smith 1o433w
Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance is written by Thomas Roger Smith, an English architect distinguished for his analysis on public buildings relating to their design, style and acoustics and their impact on other architects. Readers are introduced the common misunderstanding of synonymizing Gothic architecture with Christian religion, though i..
John Ruskin 303j24
The Stones of Venice is in depth exploration of Venetian art and architecture written by the English writer of Victorian era John Ruskin who has multifaceted personalities as historian, watercolourist, patron, philanthropist and a social thinker. Among his many writings notable one are The Poetry of Architecture, The King of the Golden ..
Albert Frederick Calvert 214j58
The compilation of a book of this kind reveals in the author a refreshing optimism which does not always survive the ordeal of publication, and it is perhaps out of sympathy with the misgivings that assail him as he approaches the bar of public and critical opinion, that convention cedes to him the privilege of making some apology for the faith tha..
Lewis Mumford 3g2340
This is an attempt to evaluate architecture in America in of our civilization. I have not sought to criticize particular buildings or tendencies: I have tried, rather, by approaching our modern problems from their historic side, to criticize the forces that from one age to another have conditioned our architecture, and altered its forms. Lest..
David MacGibbon 4h501s
In issuing the concluding Volume of this work, we take the opportunity to notice some points in the previous portions which have given rise to discussion. In Vol. I. we express disagreement with Mr. W. Galloway’s opinion regarding the age of the chancel walls of St. Blane’s, Bute. Mr. Galloway having asked for an opportunity of defending his views,..
George Thomas Clark 1kv3x
DOLFORWYN, or “The Maiden’s Meadow,” is a name evidently transposed from the meads of the adjacent Severn to the ridge occupied by the castle, which rises 500 feet or 600 feet above, and half a mile west of, the river, from which it is separated by an intervening hill. The approach is by a steep road, which becomes still more so near the top of the..
Richard King 463z4m
The Three Choirs: A Handbook to the Cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester A Complete Description of the Buildings, a History of Each Diocese and Biographical Notices of the Bishops. The single authority for the architectural history of Gloucester Cathedral is Abbot Froucester’s Chronicle of the abbey, including lives of the twenty ..