. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. t ofbrick with stone moderately used for thepurpose of color-contrast, and its architec-tural ordonnance is limited to the marshal-ling of a certain number of pilasters sup-porting the simulacra of entablatures andthe reality of very obvious pediments—these, and a tower well enough shaped andplaced at the angle. And the point thatthe student should make at once in lookingupon such a building is that it is so de-cidedly removed from the world of obviouscopying. Nothing is copied except a detailhere and there. One ha
. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. t ofbrick with stone moderately used for thepurpose of color-contrast, and its architec-tural ordonnance is limited to the marshal-ling of a certain number of pilasters sup-porting the simulacra of entablatures andthe reality of very obvious pediments—these, and a tower well enough shaped andplaced at the angle. And the point thatthe student should make at once in lookingupon such a building is that it is so de-cidedly removed from the world of obviouscopying. Nothing is copied except a detailhere and there. One has the pleasant con-viction that not a square yard of space hasbeen sacrificed nor a square foot of possibleor desirable window space abandoned forthe purpose of archaeological verity or therepute of having built something beautifulin a recognized style. So in the case of thebuilding shown in Plate LXI, that plannedfor the West Ham Institute and built about1895 in that suburban village which liesjust north of Woolwich Reach on theThames. The design is as independent of[204].
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