The Ashdown and Audsley brothers were famous for writing books about ornamentation. One of their most famous works was Polychromatic Decoration as Applied to Buildings in the Medieval Style, which came out …
A lot of style ideas were shared with the public and the architectural pros through architectural pattern books. During the early Victorian era, the pattern book kept going, and as new printing …
John Ruskin was worried about the aquatint artist’s future. In the last few decades of the 1800s, there was a huge increase in business lithography work that needed faster methods. In the …
Although Cardiff features Queen Anne houses, Tudor cottages in the Robinson style, and rural Italian villas, the most common architectural style is Gothic Revival, which was influenced by Burges, the architect of …
A Treatise on Projection, with a Complete System of Isometric Drawing, the last book written by Peter Nicholson, and Domestic Architecture in the Tudor Style, the penultimate book written by Peter Frederick …
The philosophers of the Middle Ages were responsible for drawing findings in line with church regulations based on the material provided by theologians. Theological dicta were to the philosophers of those days …
The Modernists’ aesthetic passion was so strong that it frequently overshadowed practical considerations. The Villa Savoye appeared to be a practical machine, but it was actually an artistic mistake. The bare walls …
Epictetus, an Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher, is believed to have asked a bereaved friend whose house had been burned down, ‘If you actually comprehend what regulates the cosmos, how can you wish …
From a traffic island at the upper end of a big Parisian street, the view is of a symmetrical, spacious corridor of magnificent apartment buildings that culminates in a wide plaza with …
When builders skillfully arbitrate between various oppositions, such as the ancient and the new, the natural and the artificial, the opulent and the modest, and the masculine and the feminine, beauty is …