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 | Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin - Architecture - 1841 - 160 pages
...features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building. The neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present time. Architectural... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1842 - 1212 pages
...features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety. 2nd. That all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building:" and to " the neglect of these tworules," he attributes •• all the bad architecture of the present... | |
 | 1843 - 802 pages
...features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction or propriety : secondly, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building. The neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present time. Architectural... | |
 | Guillaume Durand - Christian art and symbolism - 1843 - 396 pages
...features about a building which are not necessary " for convenience, construction, or propriety : 2. That all " ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential " construction of a building." * And we may add, as a corollary, still quoting the same writer : " The smallest " detail... | |
 | Archaeology - 1843 - 144 pages
...features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety ; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building." This we quote from the opening paragraph of the first lecture; the following is from the concluding... | |
 | Benjamin Ferrey, Edmund Sheridan Purcell - Architects - 1861 - 520 pages
...features about a building which are not necessary for conveni cnce, construction, or propriety ; 2nd, That all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building.' In pure architecture, the writer maintains on principle that the smallest detail should have a meaning... | |
 | Scotland - 1862 - 1092 pages
...necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety ; 2d, That all ornament should consist of eurichment* of the essential construction of the building." Mr....succeeded in making the exclusively Roman Catholic higotry of Pugin bend to Protestant principles and conform to secular uses, has given to these immutable... | |
 | James Jackson Jarves - Art - 1865 - 400 pages
...features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, and propriety ; Secondly, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building ; " and adds that the neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present... | |
 | Arthur Ashpitel - Architecture - 1867 - 442 pages
...alike true in respect of every style of architecture, — "The two great rules for design are these : 1st, That there should be no features about a building...enrichment of the essential construction of the building. The neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present time. Architectural... | |
 | England - 1869 - 796 pages
...features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety; and, 2d, That all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of that building." It is one of the strange curiosities of literature that Mr Ruskin, having stolen these... | |
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