- the long narrow property or burgage plot fronting onto the main street which was the normal unit of ownership in the Scottish medieval and early modern town.
The windows above this patterning are plain metal muntins set within very ornate metal mullions. This addition is more late Deco/early Moderne. Like most urban Deco buildings, this has a flat roof with no cornice or overhang.
Tithes were taken on agricultural produce such as grain and newly born animals, on manufactured goods such as woollens, and on money income. In the Middle Ages and early modern period the payment of tithes was compulsory.
The divergence in opinions comes down to a difference in goals: modernism is rooted in minimal and true use of material as well as absence of ornament, while postmodernism is a rejection of strict rules set by the early modernists and seeks ...
ON EARLY MODERN ARCHITECTURE, BUT HEY LIFE GOES ON. P.S. ARCHITECTURE DOES EXIST OUTSIDE YOUR "WORLD" MAP. OKAY BA BYE NOW.
CALEB H.
PHILADELPHIA, PA USA - Monday, January 26, 1998 at 21:27:48 (EST) I really like this page.
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