IN

ARCHITECTURE

TRACED IN OBSERVATIONS ON BUILDINGS

PRIMEVAL, EGYPTIAN, PHENICIAN OR SYRIAN, GRECIAN, ROMAN, GOTHIC OR CORRUPT ROMAN, ARABIAN OR SARACENIC, OLD ENGLISH ECCLESIASTICAL, OLD ENGLISH MILITARY AND DOMESTIC, REVIVED ROMAN, REVIVED GRECIAN, CHINESE, INDIAN, MODERN ANGLO-GOTHIC, AND MODERN ENGLISH DOMESTIC:

IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO A FRIEND.

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London:

Printed by Luke Hanfard & Sons, uear Lincoln s-Inn Fields; FOR T. CADELL & W. DAVIES IN THE STRAND.

1809.

CONTENTS.

Letter I.-Origin of Architecture.-Five principal Classes

of Architecture.-Utility the foundation of Design in all

Architecture.-Design controlled by materials.- First

buildings in each class of Architecture

P. 1

Letter II.-Gratification of the mind through the eye, the

object of a second class of Principles of Design in Archi-

tecture.-Connection and Discord of the Useful with the

Beautiful and the Picturesk

p. 8

Letter III.-First Buildings noticed in History.-Tower of

Babel.-Jacob's Pillars.-Egyptian Building.-Temple of

Dagon.-Temple of Jerusalem and Solomon's Palace p. 14

Letter IV.-Migration of Arts from the East into Greece.→

Architecture of Homer's Age.-Origin of the Grecian

Temple. Circular Building.-Stonehenge.-Early use

of Bricks.-Rectilinear Building.-Importance of the

Altar.-Completion of the Grecian Temple -

p. 20

Letter V.-Character of Design in Egyptian Architecture.-

Stone and Brick, Egyptian Materials.-Timber a princi

pal Material of the early Grecian Architecture

p. 27

Letter VI.-Change of character of Design, in Grecian

Architecture, ensuing from change of Materal.-Illustra-

tion of the relation between the Useful and the Graceful.-

Delineation and Painting unequal to the representation of

effects of Architecture.-Descriptive Sketches of the early