 | Brent C. Brolin - 2000 - 308 σελίδες
...material should determine the techniques used to work it and the appearance of the final product. Pugin: "[E]ven the construction itself should vary with the...adapted to the material in which they are executed." "Moreover, the architects of the middle ages were the first who turned the natural properties of the... | |
 | A.W. Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin - 2003 - 188 σελίδες
...enrichment of the essential construction of the building' and the qualifications 'In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose' [and] 'construction itself should vary with the material employed' (pl). INTRODUCTION ix construction, materials... | |
 | Hugh Honour, John Fleming - 2005 - 996 σελίδες
...two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present time. . . . In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve...with the material employed, and the designs should be itihipted to the material in which they are executed. Strange as it may appear at first sight, it is... | |
 | 1911 - 806 σελίδες
...ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building. In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve...adapted to the material in which they are executed. Pugin says that it is in pointed architecture alone that these great principles have been carried out.... | |
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In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose; and even the construction itself should vary with the material employed, and the designs should be adapted to the material in which they are executed. 
