. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. , 175. Woodwork, successfully preserved bythe Moors, 277, 283. Worlds Fair buildings at Chicago,456-458. Worms, cathedral at, 316. Wren, Sir Christopher, works, 407-410 ; said to have designed Ameri-can buildings, 428. Wren period, 407-410. Xerxes, palace of, 137. YASHIKI, defined, 87; construction,89. York Minster, 354. Ypres, hotel de ville at, 373. Yucatan, architecture, 104-108. THE THE NEWREFl This book istakn from the Building - ; fori. > ■ ■ ■ • > ■ . ...» • C 9 > • ; , 13 > , , * y > 3 >»•&g
. The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries. , 175. Woodwork, successfully preserved bythe Moors, 277, 283. Worlds Fair buildings at Chicago,456-458. Worms, cathedral at, 316. Wren, Sir Christopher, works, 407-410 ; said to have designed Ameri-can buildings, 428. Wren period, 407-410. Xerxes, palace of, 137. YASHIKI, defined, 87; construction,89. York Minster, 354. Ypres, hotel de ville at, 373. Yucatan, architecture, 104-108. THE THE NEWREFl This book istakn from the Building - ; fori. > ■ ■ ■ • > ■ . ...» • C 9 > • ; , 13 > , , * y > 3 >»•> NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1896 THE NFW YORK RY 51863 -NO IS. Copyright, 1896,By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. ■ . • * •♦ • • ■« ••• • , I « ■ •* INTRODUCTORY Architecture, like philosophy, dates from themorning of the minds history. Primitive man foundNature beautiful to look at, wet and uncomfortable tolive in; a shelter became the first desideratum; andhence arose the most useful of the fine arts, and thefinest of the useful arts. Its history, however, doesnot begin until the thought of beauty had insinuateditself into the mind of the builder. All the previousunfolding of the craft belongs under the head ofarchaeology. Roughly defined, architecture is the art of orna-mental construction ; not ornamental in the sense ofdecorated, but in the harmonious distribution of mass,in the convincing beauty of proportion. The entiresubject is based on three simple constr
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