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Identifier: howtojudgearchit00stur (find matches)
Title: How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Architecture Architecture -- Study and teaching
Publisher: New York : The Baker & Taylor Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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The Roman Order in Neo-Classic Art Rome, the date of which is always given as14G0, and here is the Roman Order indeed!Here is the complete reproduction of thatmost singular system of design according towhich the engaged column, known to be amere ornament or with a constructionalutility limited to this slight thickening ofthe pier at that point, is made to look likethe chief supporting member; while thearch which really does the work is treatedas a subordinate filling of the panel be-tween. This curious device, invented whenthe Romans of the Empire wished to buildfreely and yet to design as the Greeks de-signed, brought up again by their imitatorsin the fifteenth century and never aban-doned since, has so passed into our modernlife that we neither know nor see its incon-sistency. A designer who might have astrong sense for the constructional in hiswork would find it impossible to reproducethis motive: on the other hand, thosemany designers who are sincerely enamoredof the traditions of

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