The architectural director : being a guide to builders, draughtsman, students, workmen, in the study, design, and execution of architecture ... . irst, and one of themost sure means that architecture employs to createpleasure, yet, as it requires considerable knowledgeto appreciate the just proportions of approximateforms, the effect produced will be dependent on theunderstanding of the observer. Indeed, though therecan be no judicious decoration without proportion,the latter is not ordinarily considered amongst themeans to be employed in decoration. The second means is the art of combining or
The architectural director : being a guide to builders, draughtsman, students, workmen, in the study, design, and execution of architecture ... . irst, and one of themost sure means that architecture employs to createpleasure, yet, as it requires considerable knowledgeto appreciate the just proportions of approximateforms, the effect produced will be dependent on theunderstanding of the observer. Indeed, though therecan be no judicious decoration without proportion,the latter is not ordinarily considered amongst themeans to be employed in decoration. The second means is the art of combining orna-ments, and of disposing them so as to form a part inthe general system, in the total, and in the particularqualities suitable to each edifice. Such is the art of decoration. It presents an archi-tect with means, by the judicious application of whichhe is enabled to give to an edifice a specific expres-sion, and to inscribe upon it the character appropriateto its uses. Independently of the resources which form anarchitectural ordonnance, decoration compreiiendsthose which are presented ^y sculpture, and which COMFAHTMEKTS OW ( ii/^ PiOUsTui Frr 3?u^lnf^ ^i^MHtSfMl JhiJ, i- .Z-/in }ir<^ T-rer
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