Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 99
- -.-js-.^-i- Y\g. lOj.—Square Buildin- Egyptian (iorge (Figs. loi and 109). Horizontality isthe great feature of Egyptian architecture, which is typi-cally expressed by the illustration Fig. 102, an idealgeneralisation of an Egyptian temple. As hardly any, or no, rain falls in most parts of Egypt, … -P^iL __ -~^;m^ ■ •_ ,~- - - - -_jLir^-- ■•■^--■^^t?_-:.<!^-^^^^ Fig. 104.—Oblong Building. a sloping roof was not a necessity. The external walls inthe case of a square building are in the form of a trape-zium, making the whole edifice of the shape of a truncatedpyramid, and pyramid-like in…
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