Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . HOUSE IN WASHINGTON, D. C. Wood, Donn & Deming, Architects, Washington, D. C. Doric Colonial PAVILION IN COURTYARD OF THE MUSEE CARNAVALET. PARIS, FRANCE Finished in Seventeenth Ceuturv. / STUDY OF THE ORDERS 173 against the face of a connecting curtain wall. As a matter of fact, thecolumns are entire in both these buildings, the wall itself being builtup between and behind them, witli the face hollowed out so as toreceive the shaft, thus suggestingthe addition of the wall at a laterperiod as a screen betw
Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . HOUSE IN WASHINGTON, D. C. Wood, Donn & Deming, Architects, Washington, D. C. Doric Colonial PAVILION IN COURTYARD OF THE MUSEE CARNAVALET. PARIS, FRANCE Finished in Seventeenth Ceuturv. / STUDY OF THE ORDERS 173 against the face of a connecting curtain wall. As a matter of fact, thecolumns are entire in both these buildings, the wall itself being builtup between and behind them, witli the face hollowed out so as toreceive the shaft, thus suggestingthe addition of the wall at a laterperiod as a screen between thecolumns without affecting thelintel principle upon which thebuilding was probably first de-signed. In the Temple of JupiterOlympus, the addition of this wallwas probably made necessary bythe fact that the tremendous scaleof the building made the span^ red by the lintel of a great to be carried safely inthis fashion, and so the wall wasintroduced as an additionalmethod of support. Possiblysomething of this feeling mayhave caused the use of the wallbetween the columns in the Mon-ument of Lysicrates, though fordifferent reasons. The plan ofthis monument being
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