DOI Artikel:
Jones, Sydney R.: On the designing of cottages and small houses
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41874#0042
ON THE DESIGNING OF COTTAGES AND SMALL HOUSES
TYPES OF ERICK CHIMNEYS (PAGE 48)
standing in the various crafts, through long and intimate association with
particular materials. They solved the problems of construction as they
arose—though sometimes only after failures and experiments—and
learned to use bricks and stone and wood in an efficient and beautiful way.
Their lives and times differed very much from ours, but many things they
accomplished were the good and practical results of first-hand experience
and reasoning. This experience was handed down from father to son, and
in course of time local building traditions became established and were
recognized.
Each district developed into its own characteristics. There was a
definite sequence of thought traceable in the work which, as a whole,
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TYPES OF ERICK CHIMNEYS (PAGE 48)
standing in the various crafts, through long and intimate association with
particular materials. They solved the problems of construction as they
arose—though sometimes only after failures and experiments—and
learned to use bricks and stone and wood in an efficient and beautiful way.
Their lives and times differed very much from ours, but many things they
accomplished were the good and practical results of first-hand experience
and reasoning. This experience was handed down from father to son, and
in course of time local building traditions became established and were
recognized.
Each district developed into its own characteristics. There was a
definite sequence of thought traceable in the work which, as a whole,
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