An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 922
in a building. It would bedifficult to enumerate every situation wherein it is expedient to use pilasters rather thaninsulated or engaged columns. In internal apartments, where the space is restricted, a co-lumn ajjpears heavy and occupies too much room. The materials, morever, which can… … serves, a piliister may be considered as a column in bas-relief, and is thus, from thediminished quantity of labour and material in it, simpler and more economical in appli-cation. That in houses and palaces of the second class the decoration by pilasters is ofgreat service jnay be amply shown by…
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