 The two great rules for design are these : I st, that there should be no features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety ; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction...  The United States Catholic Magazine - Page 5431843Full view - About this book
 | England - 1862 - 822 pages
...features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety ; 2d. That all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building." Mr Gilbert Scott, who has succeeded in making the exclusively Roman Catholic bigotry of Pugin bend... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1842 - 1212 pages
...features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety. 2nd. That all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building:" and to " the neglect of these tworules," he attributes •• all the bad architecture of the present... | |
 | Guillaume Durand - Christian art and symbolism - 1843 - 396 pages
...features about a building which are not necessary " for convenience, construction, or propriety : 2. That all " ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential " construction of a building." * And we may add, as a corollary, still quoting the same writer : " The smallest " detail... | |
 | Archaeology - 1843 - 144 pages
...features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety ; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building." This we quote from the opening paragraph of the first lecture; the following is from the concluding... | |
 | Benjamin Ferrey, Edmund Sheridan Purcell - Architects - 1861 - 520 pages
...features about a building which are not necessary for conveni cnce, construction, or propriety ; 2nd, That all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building.' In pure architecture, the writer maintains on principle that the smallest detail should have a meaning... | |
 | James Jackson Jarves - Art - 1865 - 400 pages
...there should be no features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, and propriety ; Secondly, that all ornament should consist...enrichment of the essential construction of the building ; " and adds that the neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present... | |
 | Arthur Ashpitel - Architecture - 1867 - 442 pages
...features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety ; 2d, That all ornament should consist of enrichment of...continually tacked on buildings with which they have no connection, merely for the sake of what is termed effect ; and ornaments are actually constructed,... | |
 | England - 1869 - 796 pages
...features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety; and, 2d, That all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of that building." It is one of the strange curiosities of literature that Mr Ruskin, having stolen these... | |
 | 1869 - 1062 pages
...features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety ; and, 2d, That all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of that building." It is one of the strange curiosities of literature that Mr. Ruskin, having stolen these... | |
 | 1879 - 506 pages
...no features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction or propriety. 2d. That all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building." To which he well adds : " In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a... | |
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