. The art of landscape gardening. a Grecian temple affixed to an Englishcotton-mill. There is also another circumstance belonging toGrecian architecture, viz. symmetry, or an exact corre-spondence of the sides with each other. Symmetryappears to constitute a part of that love of order sonatural to man; the first idea of a child, in drawinga house, is to make the windows correspond, andperhaps to add two correspondent wings. There are, however, some situations where greatmagnificence and convenience are the result of abuilding of this description; yet it can only be thecase where the house is s
. The art of landscape gardening. a Grecian temple affixed to an Englishcotton-mill. There is also another circumstance belonging toGrecian architecture, viz. symmetry, or an exact corre-spondence of the sides with each other. Symmetryappears to constitute a part of that love of order sonatural to man; the first idea of a child, in drawinga house, is to make the windows correspond, andperhaps to add two correspondent wings. There are, however, some situations where greatmagnificence and convenience are the result of abuilding of this description; yet it can only be thecase where the house is so large that one of the wingsmay contain a complete suite of private apartments,connected with the house by a gallery or library, whilethe other may consist of a conservatory, etc. Every one who has observed the symmetrical ele-vations scattered round the metropolis, and the smallhouses with wings in the neighbourhood of manufac-turing towns, will allow that symmetry so applied isapt to degenerate into spruceness; and of the in-. Theory and Practice convenience of a house, separated from its offices bya long passage (however dignified by the name of col-onnade), there cannot surely be a question. Thereis yet another principle which applies materially toBayham, viz. that symmetry makes an extensive build-ing look small, while irregularity will, on the contrary,make a small building appear large: a symmetricalhouse would, therefore, ill accord with the characterof the surrounding country. Having expressed these objections against the appli-cation of Grecian architecture, before I describe anyother style of house, I shall introduce some remarkson a subject which has much engaged my attention,viz. the adaptation of buildings not only to the situa-tion, character, and circumstances of the scenery, butalso to the purposes for which they are intended ; thisI shall call characteristic architecture. Although it is obvious that every building ought to tell its own tale, and not to look l
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