10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLATBAND»
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1
The Builder's Dictionary Or Gentleman and Architect's ...
If you examine the Disposition of this Figure, you will find that CB being upon a
Level, and AB being considered as the Half of the Platband or Face of a Beam,
&c. it could not remain in that Posture, if it was not counterbalanced by A G which
is ...
2
Narrative of a journey round the Dead Sea, and in the Bible ...
Twenty yards beyond, and at about ten yards above the path, is another Assyrian
Stele in better preservation than the preceding ones. It is set all around, as in a
frame, with a wide platband, which also forms an archivolt above. Thirty yards still
...
Louis Félicien Joseph Caignart de Saulcy, Edouard de Warren, 1854
3
Heritage, Weathering and Conservation, Two Volume Set: ...
Subclass: Portal wth depressed arch and plalband Heritage, Weathering and
Conservation - Fort. Alvarez de Buergo, Gomez-Heras. 3.2 Class: PORTAL. Fig. l.
Portal with depressed arch and platband down. Fig. 2. Building l: detail of portal ...
Rafael Fort, Monica Alvarez de Buergo, Miguel Gomez-Heras, 2006
4
Islamic Art and Architecture in the European Periphery: ...
The most noteworthy architectural and decorative element of the facade is its
impressive portal.6 The platband of this portal with its regular proportions
consists of several wide bands and deepens in perspective step-by-step towards
the inside ...
Barbara Kellner-Heinkele, Joachim Gierlichs, Brigitte Heuer, 2008
5
Architecture Without Kings: The Rise of Puritan Classicism ...
in the double-moulding of the window architraves and the first-floor windows
themselves are subdy linked by panels to the platband. These connections give
Cobthorne a satisfying authority and suggest that an experimental architect
designed ...
6
On the Art of Building in Ten Books
The corona is a particularly prominent platband. The ovolo I was almost tempted
to call ivy, because it extends and clings; its lineament is like the letter C
surmounted by the letter L, like so: The astragal is a little ovolo. The letter C, if
reversed ...
Leon Battista Alberti, 1988
7
The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia
In some instances, the archivolt rises from a platband, or impost, placed on the
top of the piers; in others, from an entablature, supported by columns on either
side of the arch. Sometimes the arches are entirely supported by single or
coupled ...
8
The Edinburgh encyclopædia conducted by David Brewster, with ...
In some instances, the archivolt rises from a platband, or impost, placed on the
top of the piers ; In others, from an entablature, supported by columns on either
side of the arch. Sometimes the arches are entirely supported by single or
coupled ...
9
L'architrave, le plancher, la plate-forme: nouvelle histoire ...
Thickness of the platband (normal to the drawing plane) = 180 cm (drawing by
the author). There it is apparent that the thrusts of two adjacent spans cancel out,
except for a small ra- dial, the outward-directed thrust at each column top (a weak
...
10
Essay on the Architecture of the Hindús
The base is to be divided into eighteen equal parts, two to be given to the plinth,
one to its fillet, three to the cimarecta, three to the cavetto with its listel, three to
the torus, three to the upper cavetto, two to the platband, and one to the cimbra.
Rām Rāz, Henry Harkness, 1834
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It is built of ashlar limestone with wide architraves to the tall narrow windows, moulded sills, raised coignes, platband coving on the lintel level ... «Galway Advertiser, Mar 13»
