10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASTYLAR»
Discover the use of
astylar in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
astylar and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 6 Defining Features
Astylar vs Multistylar it is commonly suggested in discussion, and sometimes in
print, that the earliest Vakataka undertakings were all astylar excavations,
following hinayana precedents found not only at ajanta itself but elsewhere.
however, ...
Walter Spink, Naomichi Yaguchi, 2014
2
Architecture Without Kings: The Rise of Puritan Classicism ...
By 1650, astylar classicism, a modesdy attractive and notably economical style
for middling gentry houses, was close to becoming the Berkshire norm. A lack of
good building stone and an indifferent tradition of timber-framed vernacular had ...
3
The Visual Dictionary of Architecture
50. A. Astylar. A term used to describe a facade with no columns or pilasters. The
origins of the style can be traced back to the Romans and their movement away
from the column and towards the wall. The Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy ...
4
Rudimentary Treatise on the Principles of Design in ...
Orders piled on orders are a Venetian characteristic ; and in Florence, the various
stories, being astylar, have nothing to unite them into one. Thus the Roman is
evidently the only school that makes a high building appear a single story, — an
...
Edward Lacy Garbett, 1876
5
Rudimentary Treatise on the Principles of Design in ...
Orders piled on orders are a Venetian characteristic; and in Florence, the various
stories, being astylar, have nothing to unite them into one. Thus the Roman is
evidently the only school that makes a high building appear a single story,—an ...
Edward Lacy Garbett, 1850
6
A Companion to Stuart Britain
These drawings, however, appear to sanction a simple, astylar design of a kind
that began to be built in the Interregnum and continued to appear thereafter. It
has been termed `Puritan Minimalist' (Mowl and Earnshaw 1995), but there is
little to ...
7
The Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the ...
level of abstraction, replacing the rounded piers with flat, astylar piers and
verticals. In doing so, they gave up the Victoria Tower's corner tourelles, which
presented a thorny client-relations dilemma for Gilbert. In Woolworth's eyes, the
tourelles ...
8
The Architechture of Colen Campbell
Here, in fact, was another Campbell innovation, a marriage of the ideas of a
regular classic town-house front with the astylar forms of Chevening and all the
later seventeenth-century forbears of Shawfield and the Hedworth and Hotham ...
Howard Edward Stutchbury, 1900
In this context, its new astylar, antitraditional forms could evoke terror, while its
vernacular and classical forms could inspire allegiance and attract followers.
Hitler's choice of architectural styles and adamant conviction that architecture
played ...
Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, M. Richard Zinman, 1999
Because of concerns about properly supporting this novel upper story, a veritable
forest of pillars was added to what was surely, before the upper story was
conceived, a simple astylar hall. Still severely primitive in their plain octagonal
format ...
9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ASTYLAR»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
astylar is used in the context of the following news items.
Chengdu on the rise
Unveiled in 2004, its Crystal Hall is said to be the biggest astylar banqueting hall in western China, with an area of approximately 2,800 sqm, ... «CEI Asia, Apr 15»
How To Be Good
There is a nice dismissive word that applies to all other buildings: “astylar.” I also love the avenues in the French countryside, perhaps because ... «The New Yorker, Jul 14»
Chance to rethink the opera house
Bonavia's facade had three storeys, or rather two and a high attic, but, otherwise, it was typical of Valletta' architecture – astylar, with arcading ... «Times of Malta, Mar 13»
Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center
The hall is the largest one in the center and also the largest indoor astylar exhibition hall in Asia. After a relatively quiet period, the wedding ... «eTurboNews, Jan 12»
Peace reigns in school for priests
The exterior is in a somewhat generic, even nondescript, form or astylar classicism. The stuccoed rustication is a very Edwardian thing. So, too ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Apr 11»
Great British Architects: Phillip Webb 1831-1915
... English Gothic and English Baroque styles, he sought to design architecture that would be essentially 'astylar', subtly interweaving Classical ... «Country Life, Jan 11»
Two great books about NYC architecture
... empire to the construction of the building itself (the buttresses, the water supply, the sanitation system, and even "tourelles vs. astylar piers"). «Christian Science Monitor, Oct 10»
Great British Architects: Sir William Bruce
Buildings of this kind (technically described as astylar double-pile houses) had been introduced to England by Inigo Jones in the early 17th ... «Country Life, Oct 09»
Great British Architects: Sir John Soane
... the 20th century, when he became an almost cult figure among Moderns, who admired his astylar Classicism and brilliant handling of space. «Country Life, Jul 09»
