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Introduction

EDWARD LACY GARBETT A Rudimentary Treatise on the Principles of Design in Architecture as Deducible from Nature and Exemplified in the Greek and Gothic Architects, 1850

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Chapter One	The Objects of Architecture Proper	page 1
	Politeness in Building	7
	Beauty in Building	12
	Expression in Building	20
	Poetry in Building	30
Chapter Two	The Lowest Class of Beauties in Building	33
	Colour	34
	Harmonious Colouring	36
	Repetition and Uniformity	44
	Beauty of Form apart from Expression	46
	Reducible to Unity and Variety	51
	Gradation and Contrast	57
	Beauty of Curvature	60
Chapter Three	Difference of Expression in Forms	64
	Opposite Effects of Contrast and Gradation	75
	Five Classes of Forms	80
	Their Distribution	85
	Sublimity Dependent chiefly on: Contrast	98
	Expression of Power	100
	Breadth	101
	Depth	103
	Picturesqueness - Its relation to the above	106
Chapter Four	Of Some Higher Beauties in Architecture	109
	Imitation of Nature	110
	Imitation of Masters, and Originality	118
	Honesty and Decorative truth	122
	Constructive Truth	130
	Constructive Unity, or Unity of Statical Design	131
Chapter Five	Examination of the Greek Architecture	136
	Unity of General Design	137
	Constructive and Decorative Truth in the Doric Order	141
	Its Optical and Aesthetic Corrections	153
	The Other Orders and their Ornaments	158
Chapter Six	Examination of the Gothic Architecture	167
	Of Arcuation as its Main Essential	171
	Of the General Forms of Gothic Buildings	195
	The Details - Their Constructive and Decorative Truth	220
	Remarks on the Decline of the Gothic System	236
	Remarks on Post-Gothic Architecture	241
	Concluding Remarks	253