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CHAP. I
and of Brick
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makes it invaluable for use in the basement stories of
monumental buildings, but it also gives variety of texture
and even colour to an elevation. Brunelleschi employed
this motive with very noble effect in the Pitti Palace at
Florence, as Michelozzi had already done in his earlier
Fig. 12.—Palazzo Riccardi, Florence, first half of the fifteenth century.
Palazzo Riccardi, shown in Fig. 12, while in our own time
Bryce’s imposing Bank of Scotland, on its terraced sub-
structures at Edinburgh, is as good an instance as could be
named of its sagacious employment.
§ 135. Brick, and the Constructive Forms evolved
from its use.
Passing from stone to clay or brick, we lose monumental
character but discover new elements of architectural effect
and of Brick
219
makes it invaluable for use in the basement stories of
monumental buildings, but it also gives variety of texture
and even colour to an elevation. Brunelleschi employed
this motive with very noble effect in the Pitti Palace at
Florence, as Michelozzi had already done in his earlier
Fig. 12.—Palazzo Riccardi, Florence, first half of the fifteenth century.
Palazzo Riccardi, shown in Fig. 12, while in our own time
Bryce’s imposing Bank of Scotland, on its terraced sub-
structures at Edinburgh, is as good an instance as could be
named of its sagacious employment.
§ 135. Brick, and the Constructive Forms evolved
from its use.
Passing from stone to clay or brick, we lose monumental
character but discover new elements of architectural effect