The Architectural Magazine, Volume 1John Claudius Loudon Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1834 |
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... employed by the architect . The word signifying architect in the Greek language may , indeed , be translated carpenter . Whether a building is to be erected of brick or stone , still it is the carpenter who forms all the patterns and ...
... employed by the architect . The word signifying architect in the Greek language may , indeed , be translated carpenter . Whether a building is to be erected of brick or stone , still it is the carpenter who forms all the patterns and ...
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... employed for decorating different rooms , if the master painter be not an artist of cultivated taste , he can hardly avoid falling into error , and producing discord or monotony , instead of harmony . The painter is sometimes under the ...
... employed for decorating different rooms , if the master painter be not an artist of cultivated taste , he can hardly avoid falling into error , and producing discord or monotony , instead of harmony . The painter is sometimes under the ...
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... employed less and less every day . Another great error , in valuing builders ' work , is , that the sur- veyors too frequently charge but one price , whether the work be done well or ill , and that they pay no regard to the prime cost ...
... employed less and less every day . Another great error , in valuing builders ' work , is , that the sur- veyors too frequently charge but one price , whether the work be done well or ill , and that they pay no regard to the prime cost ...
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... employ a surveyor to measure his work , but to insist upon the builder leaving it entirely to the architect's clerk , or ... employed : even the simple circumstance of omitting to double or treble a dimension , may make some hundreds of ...
... employ a surveyor to measure his work , but to insist upon the builder leaving it entirely to the architect's clerk , or ... employed : even the simple circumstance of omitting to double or treble a dimension , may make some hundreds of ...
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... employed , to the pur- poses of the structure erected , and to the peculiarities of the climate possessed . This being the case , it is obvious , so far as the nature of the material is concerned , that the forms which would suggest ...
... employed , to the pur- poses of the structure erected , and to the peculiarities of the climate possessed . This being the case , it is obvious , so far as the nature of the material is concerned , that the forms which would suggest ...
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