Modern Finishings For Rooms A Series Of Designs For Vestibules Halls Staircases To Which Are Added Some Designs For Villas And Porticoes Third Edition Engraved On Eighty Six Plates Etc

Modern finishings for rooms: a series of designs for vestibules, halls, staircases ... To which are added, some designs for villas and porticoes ... Third edition. Engraved on eighty-six plates, etc

Précis of the Lectures on Architecture

Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802–5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a basic course for future civil engineers and a treatise. Focusing the practice of architecture on utilitarian and economic values, he assailed the rationale behind classical architectural training: beauty, proportionality, and symbolism. His formal systematization of plans, elevations, and sections transformed architectural design into a selective modular typology in which symmetry and simple geometrical forms prevailed. His emphasis on pragmatic values, to the exclusion of metaphysical concerns, represented architecture as a closed system that subjected its own formal language to logical processes. Now published in English for the first time, the Précis and the Graphic Portion are classics of architectural education.

Modern Finishings for Rooms: a series of designs for vestibules, halls, staircases ... and drawing rooms; ... to which are added some designs for villas and porticos ... Engraved on eighty-six plates, from designs by W. F. Poloch.