Hints on public architectureG.P. Putnam, 1849 - 119 strán (strany) |
Iné vydania - Zobraziť všetky
Časté výrazy a frázy
adaptation Arch Architecture Archi architect Baptistery of Pisa barrel vault beauty Bobbett and Edmonds brick buttress Campanile Capitol Caryatides Cathedral ceiling cella cents per cubic CHAPTER character classical clerestory colonnade columns construction Corbel-course cornice cost cubic foot cubical contents Custom-house decoration Early English edifice effect Egyptian employed England Engraved by Bobbett Engraved by Hall entablature erected example exterior feature fire-proof freestone front Gailhabaud's Ancient gallery genius Girard College Glossary of Architecture Gothic Architecture Grace Church Grecian groined vaulting ground-plan height horizontal hundred imposing Inigo Jones interior James Renwick lecture-room LINTEL ARCHITECTURE manner marble Meroë ornament pediment peristyle pier pilasters pillars portico post and lintel principle projecting proportion public buildings purpose quarries Roman Roman Architecture roof Smithsonian building Smithsonian Institution specimens spire stone structures style of Architecture Tail-piece taste tecture temple towers tracery variety Vitruvius wall window wood by Townsend wood by Wade York
Populárne pasáže
Strana 63 - They entered now the chancel tall ; The darkened roof rose high aloof On pillars, lofty, and light, and small ; The key-stone, that locked each ribbed aisle, Was a fleur-de-lys, or a quatre-feuille ; The corbels ' were carved grotesque and grim ; And the pillars, with clustered shafts so trim, With base and with capital flourished around. Seemed bundles of lances which garlands had bound.
Strana vi - The progress of painting and sculpture, which, in other lands, has been the slow growth of centuries, has been hastened in our country, thanks to the genius of a few self-taught men, beyond all former precedent. To stimulate genius in a kindred branch of art ; to supply suggestions which may call ofl...
Strana 115 - ... disfiguring spots and stains, was considered so uncertain, that it was recommended to refrain from using it in the Institution building. " 4th. That the freestone of the upper Potomac, in the vicinity of Seneca creek, and found in quarries close to the Une of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, is the best and most durable of all the Potomac freestones.
Strana 7 - ... which can only be discharged to the dust. But the lesson which men receive as individuals, they do not learn as nations. Again and again they have seen their noblest descend into the grave, and have thought it enough to garland the tombstone when they had not crowned the brow, and to pay the honor to the ashes, which they had denied to the spirit.
Strana 117 - ... of ammonia, it will show a precipitate, small but very perceptible ; though the saline solution, similarly treated before boiling, gave no precipitate whatever. 118 APPENDIX. various materials in their possession by Brard's process ; and the results, alluded to in the preceding note, are given in detail, in the following REPORT TO THE BUILDING COMMITTEE OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ON THE ACTION OF FROST UPON CERTAIN
Strana 101 - The reverberation of sound in these rooms, in consequence of their magnitude and their arch-formed ceilings, renders them wholly unfit for use ; and unless a level ceiling is thrown in at the top of the cornice, or some other means adopted to destroy the reverberation, they can never be used for the purposes of school or recitation rooms.
Strana vi - To stimulate genius in a kindred branch of art; to supply suggestions which may call off from devious paths, and indicate to the student the true line of progress; and thus to aid in abridging that season of experiment and of failure in which the glittering is preferred to the chaste, and the gaudy is mistaken for the beautiful, are objects of no light importance. In such considerations may be found the motive and the purpose of the following pages."— Extract from the Preface.
Strana 103 - That, so soon as the Board of Regents sh'all have selected the said site, they shall cause to be erected a suitable building, of plain and durable materials and structure, without unnecessary ornament, and of sufficient size, and with suitable rooms, or halls, for the reception and arrangement, upon a liberal scale, of objects of natural history, including a geological and mineralogical cabinet; also a chemical laboratory, a library, a gallery of art, and the necessary lecture rooms...
Strana 8 - Grove nods to grove, each alley has its brother, And half the garden just reflects the other.
Strana vi - While the Committee offer the result of these researches, not so much to the profession as to the public, and to public bodies, (as Vestries. Building Committees, and the like,) charged with the duties similar to their own, they indulge the hope thai the Architect also may find subject for inquiry and material for thought.