 | John Bullock - 1865 - 506 pages
...material [not conducive to strength] in the lintels of the former style, and, also, all the material of the buttresses in the latter. But, though there are...construction, there have been only two systems of architecture,—only two styles possessing constructive unity—the Greek and the Gothic. The third... | |
 | Edward Lacy Garbett - 1867 - 276 pages
...material (not conducive to strength) in the lintels of the former style, and, also, all the material of the buttresses in the latter. But, though there are...third is the destined architecture of the future. 126 CHAPTER V APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING PRINCIPLES TO TRABEATED OR BEAMED BUILDING BY THE GRECIAN... | |
 | Harry Francis Mallgrave - 2009 - 584 pages
...he attributes to Alfred Bartholomew), a "Tensile" system, in which loads are transmitted in tension: "The third constructive principle has yet to be elaborated...them. The third is the destined architecture of the future."28 This system for Garbett is represented in the possibilities of the truss. Garbett's rather... | |
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... cross-strain, like the second. It saves all the waste of material (not conducive to strength) in the lintels of the former style, and, also, all the material of the buttresses in the latter. But, though there are three styles of construction, there... 