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The rudiments of architecture and building, for the use of architects, builders, draughtsmen, machinists, engineers, and mechanics (1872)

Bullock, John · Philadelphia, H.C. Baird & Co. · leaf 45

An illustration from The rudiments of architecture and building, for the use of architects, builders, draughtsmen, machinists, engineers, and mechanics, 1872, leaf 45 — ut for them in itsleading forms and general pro-portions, but which they mightfashion nearly ad libitum inother respects. Modern archi-tects are more apt to studymere convenience, and violatearchitectural orthodoxy. Sucharchitecture may not be strictlyclassical; but it does not followthat hence… … and perhaps it might lead OF ARCHITECTURE. 41 the reader to the conclusion, that the Composite should beconsidered not as a separate Order, but as a modificationof the Corinthian. COLUUXTATION. Columns and entablatures, in themselves, do not, properlyspeaking, constitute an Order, although they…

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