This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...of the earth's surface is apparent, the origin of the second row from the entablature above the first is, on the contrary, obscure and surprising. The fact of a right angle between columns and architrave led also to right-angled parallelogram ground-plans, in which one side was uniformly copied perfectly by the other ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...of the earth's surface is apparent, the origin of the second row from the entablature above the first is, on the contrary, obscure and surprising. The fact of a right angle between columns and architrave led also to right-angled parallelogram ground-plans, in which one side was uniformly copied perfectly by the other and opposite side; and all projection or retreating of the other parts of the structure in peculiar lifelike annexes and corners, as well as all genuine architectonic grouping of essentially different members into an organic whole, was thereby excluded. In like manner also within the spatially very limited interior, no variety of perspective, no multiplicity of changeable aspects from different points of view, offered itself. In the same way, finally, on the outside the building possessed only at the pediment a prominent point, while everywhere else very beautiful elements were repeated in a somewhat monotonous manner. This style is therefore wanting, not merely in variety, but also in tendency that way; and in all mysteriousness, such as was present--for example--in Egyptian architecture in far inferior forms, and was repeated in later styles, in better forms. 41. The second general principle of architecture is that of the arch by which the roof is held together. For, of course, it can in the first instance be used only as a roof; since the aesthetic impression constantly demands that at least one stretch wide of material should vividly express by a vertical substructure the direct upward striving, as it were, of the force in opposition to gravity. The difference between the different styles of the arch depends principally upon the manner in which they dispose this substructure in combination with the arch which forms its conclusion. Th...
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