The American Builder's Companion: Or a System of Architecture, Particularly Adapted to the Present Style of Building; Illustrated With Seventy Copperplate Engravings (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Benjamin, Asher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332098584 ISBN 13: 9781332098583

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The American Builder's Companion: Or a System of Architecture, Particularly Adapted to the Present Style of Building; Illustrated With Seventy Copperplate Engravings Five years having elapsed since the first publication of the American Builder; during which time I have been constantly employed in drawing and executing plans for buildings. The experience of that time enables me to confirm some, and reject other former methods. Sixteen plates, which were in the first edition, I have laid aside, and have added twenty-nine new ones; which almost make this a new work. I have first laid down and explained such problems in Geometry, as are absolutely necessary to the well understanding of the subject. I have next treated on the origin of building, of mouldings, and of the orders. I have endeavoured to explain them so clearly and fully, that they cannot be misunderstood. At first they were selected from several authors, drawn at large, and wrought. After careful examination, such parts as I did not approve, were altered, by drawing and working them over again, and repeating this process several times, till after the most minute and careful examination of every part of the four first orders, I was confirmed in the opinion, that no further alterations for the better could be made; for the result of which experiments see these orders as they are severally laid down. I have given the Tuscan column eight diameters in height, in imitation of the Trajan and Antonian columns at Rome, which are of that height, and reckoned of the Tuscan order; and have regularly progressed, by giving the Doric nine, the Ionic ten, the Corinthian and composite eleven diameters each. I expect it will be said by some, who rigidly adhere to the proportions of the ancients, that the Tuscan column ought not to be but seven, the Doric eight, the Ionic nine, and the Corinthian and Composite ten Diameters each in height. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1332098584
• ISBN 13: 9781332098583
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252