How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 60
s in the wooden houseby a block, or cap, is the lintel, now called an architrave,and thereafter is the truss-beam, or triglyph, one over eachcolumn and repeated between columns at regular inter-vals, to give an added impression of stability. Betweenthe triglyphs, as we have seen, are the decorative… … HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE off the route of our peregrinations, I should like to speakhere of a decorative treatment of triglyphs which presentsa Greek refinement extremely characteristic of the period.These beam ends, delicately fluted with perpendicularchannels, are not allowed to end at the top of…
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