The Architectural magazine . the architect, was to getthrough his task with the least possible trouble and expense ofthought; the defects in them being such as a very little studywould have prevented. As even a single illustration (and I could bring forward fifty)will prove more satisfactory than mere allegation, and likewiseenable the reader to determine whether I am too presumptuousin making the above remark, I shall now, for the purpose ofexemplifying some of the careless oversights alluded to, and atthe same time pointing out how, in that particular case, obviousfaults might have been avoi
The Architectural magazine . the architect, was to getthrough his task with the least possible trouble and expense ofthought; the defects in them being such as a very little studywould have prevented. As even a single illustration (and I could bring forward fifty)will prove more satisfactory than mere allegation, and likewiseenable the reader to determine whether I am too presumptuousin making the above remark, I shall now, for the purpose ofexemplifying some of the careless oversights alluded to, and atthe same time pointing out how, in that particular case, obviousfaults might have been avoided, exhibit part of the plan of a villa, which forms one of the subjectsin Brittons and Pugins Edijiccs ofLand071. Fig. 108. shows that portion of thehouse which comprises the breakfast-room (b\ and smaller drawingroom(r/), which latter is en mite with alarger apartment of the same deno-mination measuring 51 ft. by 22^ ft.,and decorated with columns. In aresidence containing such an apart-ment as the one last mentioned, it. Studies of Plan. 227 is but reasonable to expect that all the other sitting-rooms,however unpretending tiiey may be in themselves, should ex-hibit careful study in their respective plans. Instead of which,we here perceive that, in the breakfast-room (b), no regard what-ever has been paid to symmetry, the chimne3-piece being thrownout of the centre, in order to admit a door from the corridor,on the same side of the room ; which door, again, comes soclose to the fireplace, that it cannot but occasion much posi-tive inconvenience. Had the room been of the usual form, andhad there been no windows on the side facing the fireplace, theirregularity just pointed out would have been neither so observ-able nor so objectionable; but here, the centre window and thechimney-piece being placed obliquely to each other, it becomesso marked as to be positively offensive. The architect, nodoubt, adopted the readiest mode ; but that this mode was thebest, or that he had no alt
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