 | Daniel Drake Reiff - Architecture - 1972 - 184 pages
...important not only for the enjoyment of the resident, but also for the setting of the architecture iself. Architectural beauty must be considered conjointly...as architectural objects of greater or less merit [as the facade of a townhouse], but as component parts of the general scene; united FIGURE 186. "An... | |
 | Sue A. Kohler, Jeffrey R. Carson, United States. Commission of Fine Arts - Architecture - 1978 - 602 pages
...picturesque form and outline, its porches, verandas, etc., also appears to have some reasonable connexion, or be in perfect keeping, with surrounding nature. Architectural...as architectural objects of greater or less merit, out as component parts of the general scene; united with the surrounding lawn, embosomed in tufts of... | |
 | Adam W. Sweeting - American literature - 1996 - 252 pages
...reputation as an architectural reformer rests. Like several of his English predecessors, he insisted that "architectural beauty must be considered conjointly with the beauty of the landscape or situation." The gardener's task —and here Downing spoke primarily as a gardener—remained incomplete until the... | |
 | Harry Francis Mallgrave - Architecture - 2009 - 584 pages
...form and outline, its porches, verandas, etc., also appears to have some reasonable connection, or be in perfect keeping, with surrounding nature. Architectural...conjointly with the beauty of the landscape or situation." I2li Its leading principles should be (1) fitness for the end in view, (2) expression of purpose, and... | |
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Architectural beauty must be considered conjointly with the beauty of the landscape or situation. Buildings of almost every description, and particularly those for the habitation of man, will be considered by the mind of taste, not only as architectural... 