Hints to young architects, comprising advice to those who, while yet at school, are destined to the profession, to such as, having passed their pupilage, are about to travel and to those who, having completed their education, are about to practise, together with a model specification involving a great variety of instructive and suggestive matter (1887)
Wightwick, George · London, Lockwood · leaf 30
al effect. Surfaces which are perpendicular, as walls, and recede, will be lightest at the upper corner nearest the spectator, graduating thence into half-tint, and if in shadow, the nearest edge will be the darkest. Cylindrical surfaces, as columns,receive reflected light on the shadedside and… … 18 HINTS TO YOUNG ARCHITECTS. surfaces, as niclies, domical ceilings, &c., are to betreated similarly, except that tlie light and shadedsides are reversed, the deepest shade being nearestthe light, the half-tints and reflected lights beinggraduated between ; the extreme edges receiving eithera…
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