By Robert Chitham

This is often the one ebook that offers a contemporary interpretation of the Classical Orders. the recent variation of this profitable identify now contains the proportions in either metric and imperial measurements to make the orders extra obtainable and to supply a priceless reference for designers.

The inclusion of either 100-part and 96-part platforms of percentage is underpinned by way of an essay on James Gibbs - one of many 18th century authors of standardized proportioning structures - and his impression in the USA. in addition to extra plates, this ebook offers a
clear advent to these now not conversant in the classical style and is a straightforward to persist with consultant which assists architects, inside designers and conservators with the standard in their layout

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66 diminishing quadrants forming the fillet. The radii for this second series of quadrants are shown on the main drawing in broken line. There is one problem with the diagram as shown in Chambers. Chambers states that the lengths FC and AB are 15 parts and 3V3 parts respectively. If these dimensions are adopted, however, the volute does not flow into the eye in a continuous curve. 478:1. In order to produce the curve the diameter of the eye must be slightly reduced. The multiplicy of centres, moreover, introduces so much margin of variation that the drawing must be done with considerable accuracy if dimensions of eye and overall depth are to be achieved with a smooth transition from volute to eye.

Greek prototypes more often than not employ a triple division, but both Gibbs and Chambers reserve this more elaborate subdivision for the Corinthian, as the most decorative of the orders. I have followed this practice in the plate. It should be noted that the lower face of the architrave is considerably narrower than the upper - an equal division looks dull and is to be avoided. The frieze may be either flat, as shown, or pulvinated, as in Palladio's Ionic in plate 6. The pulvinated frieze has a convex face, the centre of the curve lying on the column centre.

THE IONIC CAPITAL AND ENTABLATURE 1 PLATES 20 A N D 21 THE I O N I C CAPITAL I A N D II These two plates depict the two major alternative forms of the Ionic capital. Plate 20 shows the four-sided capital developed by Scamozzi, and plate 21a parallel-sided capital from Greek and Roman sources. Ionic capitals are not difficult to set out once the drawing of the volute has been mastered, and there is a degree of latitude in the location of their essential elements. Plate 20 shows elevations of the capital both from the side and across the diagonal.

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