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Example sentences for "domestic architecture"

  • It is engraved in Turner's "Domestic Architecture," vol.

  • Mr. Turner, in the "Domestic Architecture," says that there exists a complete chronological series from the twelfth century downwards.

  • A good and concise account of the smaller houses in France is given in Hudson Turner's Some Account of Domestic Architecture, and in C.

  • Finally, a word must be said of the wealth of interesting examples of domestic architecture, which yet count among the ornaments of the country.

  • Being a piece of domestic architecture, the chief object in its exterior design will be to arouse domestic feelings, which, as we saw before, it will do most distinctly by corresponding with the first part of character.

  • This will compel us to use the divisions of landscape formerly adopted in speaking of the cottage, and to investigate severally the kind of domestic architecture required by each.

  • Neither to the house of logs, therefore, nor to that of stone must we look for the earliest embodiment of positive taste in domestic architecture.

  • On the whole, one feels that nature has long waited for a more exquisite sense in domestic architecture; that the immeasurable possibilities of delightful landscape have gone unrecognized or wasted.

  • Of domestic architecture in a brief and general way something has been said.

  • The introduction of the purer Italian style into England in the 17th century created a great change in domestic architecture.

  • From Garner and Stratton, Domestic Architecture of England during the Tudor Period, 1910.

  • It may have been built about fifty years ago, and is--or rather the remains of it are--quite in the modern style of domestic architecture.

  • Caen can show another remarkable instance of domestic architecture, a castellated building, which, it has been remarked, might easily mislead the studious antiquary.

  • Still I think the law of domestic architecture at least should be 'from within out.

  • On a recent visit to the young woman whose experiences and observations are contained in this book, I was greatly pleased to find her zeal and interest in domestic architecture unabated.

  • And now," said Jill, "we will leave the rest of this interminable letter for a more convenient season and see what our indefatigable aunt has sent as the latest and best thing in domestic architecture.

  • We also know that the houses of Babylon were three or four stories in height, but were rudely constructed and indicate an inferior style of domestic architecture.

  • It is always interesting to study the houses and homes of a people--domestic architecture, as it is called; but one cannot do that in Egypt.

  • The Gothic order was also used in building municipal edifices, palaces, and even for the purposes of domestic architecture.

  • Hardwicke Hall is a good specimen of the style of domestic architecture in the time of Queen Elizabeth, which has remained unaltered since that period.

  • There are also several curious specimens of domestic architecture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to be found in Coventry.

  • In contrast with these lighter designs for domestic architecture, it is interesting to examine the stair-end treatment in Independence Hall, which is equally pleasing as an example of heavier, richer detail for public work.

  • As distinguished from surfaced stonework, it possesses that flexibility in use so essential to the many and varied requirements of domestic architecture imposed by the personality and mode of living of the owner.

  • Although large and more ornate, the Palladian window above the entrance to Independence Hall on the Independence Square side is more like that found in domestic architecture.

  • I am not aware of a vestige of domestic architecture, belonging to the great mediƦval periods, which, according to its material and character, is not richly decorated.

  • For instance, there is not, on the whole, a more studied piece of domestic architecture in Edinburgh than the street in which so many of your excellent physicians live--Rutland Street.


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