A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 520
ects are them-selves competent, and, u)) to a certain point, maytrust their own computations. Some, but notmany, engineers have something of that tradi-tional respect for beauty and significance of formthat they may make their own designs for thedecorative effect of stnictures which they haveto… … i~i ^ Ci ^ »- o •, ENGINE HOUSE It is worthy of note that in this combinationof engineer and architect the world is returningto the methods still recognized as coinniou tothe Romans of the great Empire. As in a largepublic structure of the second century, a vaultedbasilica, thermaj, or the like,…
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