The American Vitruvius

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Excerpt from The American Vitruvius: An Architect's Handbook of Civic ArtTherefore the architect who looks for inspiration as to grouping public buildings to best advantage into civic centers and layingr out public parks and pleasure grounds, will study with advantage the achievements of the builders of former times, and will find that these compositions, whether called castles or otherwise, often were truly civic centers of great artistic quality, contain ing in actuality everything the modern civic reformer wants to bring together: council chamber, law court, chapel, library and picture gallery, dance hall and plea sure grounds, which under normal conditions were acces sible indeed to all who made proper use of the facilities offered. And these centers in many cases were brought into thoroughly satisfactory esthetic relation to the town surrounding them.Most American cities have fallen victims of a grid iron arrangement of streets along which buildings of different character are lined up indiscriminately. It is hard under such conditions to_ place buildings to ad vantage. The inconsiderate introduction of diagonal streets often made matters worse instead of improving them. How churches and other important buildings were placed and made prominent in former times and how their surroundings and approaches were treated and pro tooted is a study well worth while to the American arch-i toot.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.