How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 49
carry your eye to the ground so as to satisfy youraesthetic sense that they fulfil their purpose of carrying aload securely. This perpendicular support, with the horizontal beamit carries, whether of wood, marble, or steel, and what-ever its size or proportions, is post and lintel construction,the… … RECIAN activities in architectural de-velopment grew on the foundations ofphilosophical and practical analysis ofconstructive work, which preceded them.We have all heard of the buildings ofancient Athens as the supreme crea-tion of their kind, and most of ushave doubtless wondered why this is so…
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