Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Specifications for Building Works and How to Write Them: A Manual for Architectural Students
This Manual is written with a view to meet the requirements of the architectural student, to show him how he should write a specification, so that when he has learnt the method and general principles, he may apply them to the particular exigencies of any building he may design. The examples given are intended to act as illustrations, not as precedents to be exactly copied in every instance. There is' a bad practice existing in many architects' offices of copying old specifications, with some modifications, for new work. Such a practice leads too often to the omission of important items, to the inclusion of irrelevant matter, and to vague and indefinite description. A mere collection of precedents is therefore too apt to prove a pitfall for the student, who should rather take it as an axiom that each well; written specification will fitly apply only to the one design for which it is intended and to no other. Once secure in his own mental equipment, the architect has no further need of guides and precedents, but will produce better and more satisfactory work by the independent exercise of his trained faculties and intelligence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
