Orders of Architecture

Columns, capitals and mouldings are taken apart and measured in these prints from Orders of Architecture, Richard Phené Spie...

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Columns, capitals and mouldings are taken apart and measured in these prints from Orders of Architecture, Richard Phené Spiers's study of Greek, Roman and Italian classical design, from the Batsford publication of 1902. The plates range from complete orders to the setting out of an Ionic volute, drawing Roman examples from the Theatre of Marcellus, the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina and the round temple at Tivoli, while ornament and enriched mouldings are treated separately. Made to teach rather than to offer picturesque views of ruins, they show how historical precedent was still a working resource for architects at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Columns, capitals and mouldings are taken apart and measured in these prints from Orders of Architecture, Richard Phené Spiers's study of Greek, Roman and Italian classical design, from the Batsford publication of 1902. The plates range from complete orders to the setting out of an Ionic volute, drawing Roman examples from the Theatre of Marcellus, the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina and the round temple at Tivoli, while ornament and enriched mouldings are treated separately. Made to teach rather than to offer picturesque views of ruins, they show how historical precedent was still a working resource for architects at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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