THE ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE, AND JOURNAL OF IMPROVEMENT IN ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING, AND FURNISHING, AND IN THE VARIOUS ARTS AND TRADES CONDUCTED BY J. C. LOUDON, F.L.S. G.S. &c. AUTHOR OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE AND FURNITURE. VOL. I. LONDON: LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMAN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. We have been induced to commence an Architectural Magazine, from the beneficial influence which, we are informed, has attended the publication of our Encyclopædia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture. One of the highest gratifications we have received, since we commenced author, is to know that that work is gradually effecting a reformation in the construction of cottage dwellings and farm buildings, not only throughout Britain and Ireland, but in America and Australia. The object of the Architectural Magazine is to second the effect produced by the Encyclopædia, by improving the public taste in architecture generally, by rendering it a more intellectual profession, by recommending it as a fit study for ladies, and by inducing young architects to read, write, and think, as well as to see and draw. In this Volume will be found a series of papers by the Conductor, the object of which is to popularise the subject of architecture as a matter of taste; and there are also several able papers, written with the same view, by Mr. Trotman, and other professed architects. This we consider to be the first step towards rendering architecture a fit study for general readers, and especially for female ones. Our reasons for introducing such papers are grounded on the principle laid down by Alison in his Essays on Taste, viz. that "the most effectual method to check the empiricism either of art or science, is to multiply, as far as possible, the number of those who can observe and judge." A second set of papers has for its object the familiarising of the general reader with what are technically called the Elements of Architectural Design. The first of these, on Classical Architecture, is by Mr. Trotman, a practical architect, well known for his eminent literary talents; and the subject has been completed by our architectural draughtsman, Mr. Robertson. Gothic Architecture, to which there has hitherto been no complete Introduction, either scientific or popular, has been kindly undertaken by Mr. Picton, at once an excellent practical architect and an able writer; and this subject will be completed in the Second Volume. The remaining papers are all of a practical nature, and either describe and criticise public or private buildings already executed, or furnish suggestions and designs for constructions in every department of the art, including finishing and furnishing; rural and garden architecture; and engineering, as far as is necessary to connect architecture with that science. The reader will find the various subjects treated on, both in the Original Communications and in the Reviews, systematically arranged in the Table of Contents. In the Review Department we have given some account of the more important English, French, and German Works which have been published in the course of the year; and our Catalogue includes the titles, as far as we have been able to obtain them, of all the Architectural Works which have been published in Europe and America during the same period. In the Miscellaneous Department will be found various opinions by dif ferent writers, and a variety of news, accompanied by criticisms, respecting architectural improvements going on in every part of the world, but more particularly in Britain. For our forthcoming Numbers we have some valuable papers in hand; and we are kindly promised, by Mr. Lamb, a Series of Designs for Villas, in all the different varieties of the Gothic, Classical, and Italian styles. In conclusion, we have to thank, most sincerely, those architects, both personal friends and strangers, who have kindly come forward to assist and patronise this infant periodical, the first of its kind that has been commenced in Britain: and we earnestly entreat all architects, and others connected with the building arts, who are desirous of advancing their profession; and our readers generally, who wish to promote the progress of architectural taste, and the universal diffusion of architectural comforts; to aid us by their contributions and their advice; and, in short, by every assistance in their power. Bayswater, Nov. 20. 1834. J. C. L. General Subject. A Plain Statement of Facts connected with the A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the Five Bakewell's Observations on Building and Brick- Bennet's Artificer's Complete Lexicon for Terms Billington's Architectural Director, Part i., 84; Britton's Memoir of Sir John Soane, 310. Nicholson's General Treatise on Projection, an- Rám Ráz's Essay on the Architecture of the Rickman's Attempt to discriminate the Styles of Wilkins's Vitruvius, noticed, 372. Classical Architecture. Modern Domestic Architecture. Smith's Construction of Cottages for Labourers, Whitling's Designs for Shop Fronts, 180. 239. Wild's Elementary and Practical Instructions on the Art of Building Cottages and Houses for the humbler Classes, 314. 372. Views of Buildings recently completed. Newman's View of the Indigent Blind School, Wilkinson's Elevation of the National Gallery, Ornaments, chiefly for Fittings-up, Furniture, and A Compilation of Splendid Ornamental Designs, Carlo Antonini's Antique Roses for the Use of Chippendale's Designs for Sconces, and Chimney Chippendale's Designs of Interior Decorations in the Old French Style, for Carvers, &c., announced, 137. Designs for Chimney Glasses, of the Time of Inigo Jones and Sir John Vanbrugh, announced, 137. Designs for Vases, announced, 137. Designs of the Ornaments and Decorations of Johnson's Book of Ornaments in the French and Cockerell's Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius, and King's Working Ornaments, 370. Antiquities at Egina, announced, 86. Dodwell's Cyclopian Remains, 44. 88. Rochette's Monumens inédits d'Antiquité, 44. Architectural Antiquities in the Pointed Style. Brayley's Illustrations of Christ Church, Hampshire, 45. Coney' Interior Views of Milan Cathedral, 85. Davis's Gothic Ornaments, illustrative of Prior Ferrey's Antiquities of Christ Church, Hampshire, 239. 371. Lange's Eglises Gothiques, 45. Lockwood and Cates's Ancient Gates and Fortifi- Raine's Catterick Church, in the County of York, 137. 273. 371. Robinson's Details of Ancient Gates, &c., in York, Salvin's Catterick Church. See Raine's Catterick Sopwith's Eight Views of Fountains Abbey, 314. Elizabethan Architecture. Blackburn's Architectural and Historical Ac- Knight's Ornaments for Jewellers, &c., 180. Lock, Johnson, and Copland's Ornamental De- Maguire's Ornaments in various Styles, 371. Pether's Book of Ornaments, suitable for Beginners, announced, 139. Shaw's Ornamental Works in Louis XIV.'s Style, 85. Shaw's Specimens of Ancient English Furniture, Trendal's Designs for Interior Finishings, 44. 136. Trotter's Observations and Illustrations of his modified Plan of a Communication between Engineering. Alderston's Essay on the Nature and Application of Steam, announced, 181. Blunt and Stephenson's Civil Engineer and Me. Hallingworth's Plan and Section of the Water- The Philosophy of Architecture popularised. On the Means of forming a just and correct Taste in Architecture, and on the Sources from which the Principles of Design and Construction in On the Causes of the different Kinds and Degrees of Taste which different Persons possess in Architecture considered as an Art of Imagin- On the Difference between Common, or Imita- tive, Genius, and Inventive, or Original, Ge. On those Principles of Composition, in Archi- tecture, which are acknowledged to be common On those Principles of Composition, in Architec- ture, which are common to all the Fine Arts: - Sect. 1. Forms, Lines, Lights, Shades, and Colours, considered with reference to the Production of an Architectural Whole 249 Sect. 2. Forms, Lines, Lights, Shades, and Colours, considered with reference to the Principle of the Recognition of Art 281 Sect. 3. Forms, Lines, Lights, Shades, and Colours, considered with reference to the 321 Sect. 4. Forms, Lines, Lights, Shades, and Colours, considered with reference to the Principles of Variety, Intricacy, and Har- On the alleged Degeneracy of Modern Architec- On the comparative Value of Simplicity in Archi- On the Domestic Offices of a House Notice of some of the Ornamental Chimney Pots and Shafts manufactured of Artificial Stone by A descriptive Account of the Duke of York's Monument, accompanied by Plans, Elevations, A descriptive Account, accompanied by Plans, Elevations, and Sections, of Hungerford New Market, recently built from the Designs of Charles Fowler, Esq., Architect Notice of some Designs for Architectural Foun- tains, manufactured in Artificial Stone by Mr Design for a Villa in the Norman Style A Series of Designs, with Descriptive and His- torical Particulars, of Characteristic and Orna- mental Buildings, and Objects for Gardens and Notice of a very common Error in designing and building Ornamental Chimney Shafts - 63 On a Method of preventing the Damp from rising in the Walls of Buildings on Clayey and other On an effectual Method of cutting off the Com- munication between the damp Foundation of a Wall built upon a moist Subsoil, and the Part of the Wall above the Ground; and on a Mode of securing the Inside of a Wall from damp forced through the Brickwork by driving Rains, On the Use of Cast-Iron and Caithness Flagstone in the Construction of Fireproof Floors and |