Identifier: easystepsinarch00hodg (find matches)
Title: Easy steps in architecture and architectural drawing ..
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Hodgson, Frederick Thomas, 1836- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Architecture Architectural drawing
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., Printed by F. J. Drake & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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gance,lightness, or richness. Though a building bewithout columns it is nevertheless said to be ofan order, if its details be regulated according tothe method prescribed for such order. In all the orders a similar unit of reference isadopted for the construction of their variousparts. Thus, the lower diameter of the columnis taken as the proportional measure of all theother parts and members, for which it is subdi-vided into sixty parts, called minutes, or intotwo modules of thirty minutes each. Being pro-portional measures, modules and minutes arenot fixed ones like feet and inches, but are vari-able as to the actual dimensions which theyexpress — larger or smaller according to theactual size of the diameter of the column. Forinstance, if the diameter be just five feet, aminute being one-sixtieth, will be exactly oneinch. Therefore, before commencing to drawan elevation of any one of the orders, thediameter of the column must be determined, and 226 ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING SELF TAUGHT
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Fig. 239. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING SELF TAUGHT 2S7 from that form a scale of equal parts, by sixtydivisions, then lay off the widths and heights ofthe different members according to the propor-tions of the required order as marked on thebody or on the sides of the illustrations. Fig. 239 presents an illustration of the Tuscanorder, considered by architects as a spurious orplain sort of Doric, and hardly entitled to remarkas a distinct order. E in the frieze correspond-ing to the triglyph, illustrates still further theconnection of the two orders; but by manyarchitects this member is not introduced. No. iis an elevation of capital and entablature, No. 2of the base, and No. 3 of a detached capital.Our example is constructed according to therules given by Vincent Scamozzi. Examples of two capitals are given, differingmerely in the number of mouldings in the abacus. In fact, this introduction of simple mouldingsis about the only variety allowable in the order.Ornament is not admitted, nor ar

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