An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongmans, Green, 1876 - 1395 pages |
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... employed as the medium of uniting masonry . They were both , doubtless , the invention of that race which we have mentioned as cultivators of land , to whom is due the introduction of architecture , properly so called . To them solid ...
... employed as the medium of uniting masonry . They were both , doubtless , the invention of that race which we have mentioned as cultivators of land , to whom is due the introduction of architecture , properly so called . To them solid ...
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... employed was that of the date tree , posts of which were used in their domestic architecture , round which , says Strabo , they twist reeds and apply a coat of paint to them . Thickness of wall was obtained by casing rubble work with ...
... employed was that of the date tree , posts of which were used in their domestic architecture , round which , says Strabo , they twist reeds and apply a coat of paint to them . Thickness of wall was obtained by casing rubble work with ...
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... employed , soon acquired an authority from which no individual would dare to deviate by an improve- ment of the forms under which it had appeared . Plato observes , that no change took place in painting among the Egyptians ; but that it ...
... employed , soon acquired an authority from which no individual would dare to deviate by an improve- ment of the forms under which it had appeared . Plato observes , that no change took place in painting among the Egyptians ; but that it ...
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... employed , they seem to have flowed from caprice , both in selection and employment , resting on no fixed principles of necessity or fitness , nor subject to any laws but those of chance . The original forms , indeed , of Egyptian ...
... employed , they seem to have flowed from caprice , both in selection and employment , resting on no fixed principles of necessity or fitness , nor subject to any laws but those of chance . The original forms , indeed , of Egyptian ...
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... employed in it . The political and moral subjection of the people seems to have doomed them to remain in that confined circle wherein long habit and repugnance to change have enclosed them . 95. In speaking of the principles of Chinese ...
... employed in it . The political and moral subjection of the people seems to have doomed them to remain in that confined circle wherein long habit and repugnance to change have enclosed them . 95. In speaking of the principles of Chinese ...
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15th century aisles arch architect architecture axis base beam breadth bricks building built called cast iron Castle cathedral cement centre of gravity chapel choir church circle circumference colour columns construction Corinthian order cube cubic foot curve decorated depth describe diameter dome Doric order draw edifices ellipsis employed entablature equal erected examples extrados feet girder given Gothic granite half horizontal inches intercolumniations joints length lime limestone marble mortar mouldings nave oolite ornaments palace parallel parallelogram perpendicular piece piers placed plane plates portico Portland stone Prop proportion pyramid quarries radius rectangle ribs right angles right line Roman Roman architecture Rome roof sandstone side similar sofite solid square stone strength style surface tangent temple thickness tiles timber tons tower transepts triangle upper vault vertical Vitruvius voussoirs walls weight whereof width wood