Lectures On Architecture: Consisting Of Rules Founded Upon Harmonick And Arithmetical Proportions In Building - Softcover

Robert Morris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461418436 ISBN 13: 9780461418439

Publisher: HardPress, 2019

Synopsis

Lectures On Architecture: Consisting Of Rules Founded Upon Harmonick And Arithmetical Proportions In Building by Robert Morris is an 18th-century treatise that codifies a method of architectural design grounded in harmony and mathematical proportion. Originally published in the 1730s, Morris imagines architecture as a public, societal enterprise, proposing that well-ordered buildings secure rights, support defense, and promote learning. The work is presented as a sequence of lectures and prefatory material, including a Dedication to contemporary patrons, a Preface, and extensive explanations of Harmonick and Arithmetical Proportions, applied to exterior elevations, interior layouts, and decorative schemes. Morris provides practical rules: cube-based modules, arithmetic progressions, and systematic methods for proportional lighting, chimneys, and room sizes, all illustrated by copper-plate tables. He discusses the selection of Situations (rural, urban, or ceremonial), the use of the five classical orders, and the balance of Drefs and Ornament with the underlying Proportions. The treatise frames architecture as a universal art guided by natural law, designed to educate and ennoble society.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461418436
• ISBN 13: 9780461418439
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 302