. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 1850.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 869 LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE, By Samuel Clegg, Jun., , Delivered at the College for General Practical Science, Putney, Surrey. (president, bis grace the duke of buccleuch, ) Lecture XI.âROME: Domestic Architecture. It is to be regretted that so little is positively known on the subject of Classical Domestic Architecture. This vVant of informa- tion is however the less surprising, when we cons
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 1850.] THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. 869 LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE, By Samuel Clegg, Jun., , Delivered at the College for General Practical Science, Putney, Surrey. (president, bis grace the duke of buccleuch, ) Lecture XI.âROME: Domestic Architecture. It is to be regretted that so little is positively known on the subject of Classical Domestic Architecture. This vVant of informa- tion is however the less surprising, when we consider that the Greeks and Romans were not a domestic people, and that most of their time was spent in public; besides, private residences, how- ever wealthy the community may be, are seldom built with the same solidity as public edifices, and therefore the sooner go to decay. The great changes also that take place in domestic man- ners, render the habitations of one period unfitted for subsequent times; they are therefore either removed to make way for new dwellings, or so altered as to lose much of their original character: this must have been more especially the case in the great revolu- tion that took place in manners and customs on the spread of Christianity and the dismemberment of the Roman Empire. But notwithstanding the idea of what was necessary and comfortable amongst the ancient Romans differs as widely from ours as does our domestic life from theirs, it is neither uninstructive nor unin- teresting to inquire into their mode of living; for as each receding tide leaves some vestige behind it on the' shore, so the manners and ideas of past ages have left traces that may be recoo-- nised in the present day. ° If it had not been for the discovery of Pompeii, we should have been wholly indebted to the descriptions gleaned from various authors for our knowledge of Roman domestic architecture. This little town (buried for 1600 years) played no conspicuous part in history
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