...features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety; and, 2d, That all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of that building." It is one of the strange curiosities of literature that Mr Ruskin, having stolen these...

...concerning the principles of Gothic art: " The two great rules for design are these : 1st. Thatt/iere should be no features about a building which are not...enrichment of the essential construction of the building." To which he well adds : " In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a...

...be no feature about a building which was not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety ; that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of buildings ; that all shams were inadmissible in Christian churches ; in fact, that the external and...

...features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety ; second, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building. " The neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present time. Architectural...

...features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety," and "that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building." This is not the place to trace out the story in detail. It is enough to say that Pugin's teaching at...

...be no features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction or propriety;" "all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building." Ruskin added a moral fervor of judgment, casting into outer darkness, as "unnatural and monstrous,"...

...and abandoned the sound rules of the great school of the thirteenth century, ignoring the principle that "all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of a building". The sins of the glass-painters of the fifteenth century were still greater, for it mattered...

...necessary for convenience, construction or propriety; second, 29 To««" MgMy ^VC" :- 'i'V'?. "-' ì' that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building.' For him, the forms of gothic architecture derived not out of any external notion of surface symmetry...

...features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety; second, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building. The neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present time. Architectural...

...features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction, or propriety; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of enrichment of the essential construction of the building. The neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present time ... the...