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Excerpt from Domestic Architecture: Containing a History of the Science and the Principles of Designing Public Edifices, Private Dwelling-Houses, Country Mansions and Suburban Villas, With Practical Dissertations on Every Branch of Building, From the Choice of the Site, to the Completion Of
In the Introduction to this work will be found stated the qualifications required to form. An archi teet. By way of summary, I shall subj Oin Uvedale Price's opinion of such a person in his Essay on the Picturesque Whoever, says he, wishes his mansion to be a real decoration to his park, cannot do without an architect; not indeed a mere builder architect, but that person who has studied landscape as well as architecture, who is no less fond of it than his own profession, and who feels that each different aspect requires a different disposition of the several parts; in reality, this consideration points out the use, and greatly exalts the character of an architect. It is an easy matter, by means of some slight changes in what has already been done, to make out such a design as may look well upon paper; but to connect with correct design such a disposition of the component parts as will accord not only with the general character of the scenery, but with the particular situa tion, and the obj ects immediately around it, and which will present from a number of points a variety of well-varied and combined parts, forming so many pictures in nature, requires very different and.
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