The Architectural magazine . Nothing can more show the vitiated taste of our architectsand their employers, than their being better pleased with designs of same Villa Architects. 119. in which chimney shafts are omitted or but partially shown, thanwhere they are boldly avowed. Let us not, however, blamethe employeis of architects, or the readers of architectural pub-lications, but rather the architects themselves, for their un-national, or, T might even say, unnatural, prejudices. In formertimes, before the architecture of Italy became fashionable inEngland, there was no such thing as a house,
The Architectural magazine . Nothing can more show the vitiated taste of our architectsand their employers, than their being better pleased with designs of same Villa Architects. 119. in which chimney shafts are omitted or but partially shown, thanwhere they are boldly avowed. Let us not, however, blamethe employeis of architects, or the readers of architectural pub-lications, but rather the architects themselves, for their un-national, or, T might even say, unnatural, prejudices. In formertimes, before the architecture of Italy became fashionable inEngland, there was no such thing as a house, either in town orcountry, without bold and conspicuous chimney shafts. Lookat the houses erected by Inigo Jones, Thorpe, and all the archi-tects of the time of Henry VIII,, Elizabeth, and James I. Re-move all that part of the chimney shafts of such houses which isseen above the roof, and how tame would they appear ! It will not be contended, surely, that there is anything in thenature of Roman or Italian architecture that forbids the use ofconspicuous chimney shafts: those who think this, I refer to thebeautiful Italian designs, by Mr. Lamb, in your Encyclopcsdia ofArchitectu
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