Maniere de bastir : pour touttes sortes de personnes

Le Muet, Pierre, 1591-1669 · 1623 · A Paris : Chez Melchior Tauernier ... · 51 pictures

Maniere de bastir, pour touttes sortes de personnes is a 1623 Paris treatise on building by the architect Pierre Le Muet, aimed at anyone commissioning a house of any kind. Its pictures are ruled architectural elevations and floor plans of townhouses in engraved line, with labelled windows, dormers, doorways and stair layouts that show how a classical French façade is ordered and could guide a designer's facade and plan layouts.

Architecture -- Early works to 1800 · Building -- Early works to 1800 · Architecture, Domestic -- France -- Early works to 1800

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