The meaning of architecture; an essay in constructive criticism
An architecture essay by Irving Kane Pond, published in Boston by the Marshall Jones company in 1918, written as a constructive critique of how buildings are designed and understood. The pictures are plain line drawings of classical and Gothic architectural details such as capitals, column bases and moulded piers, numbered like plates in a textbook. A designer could take from them the clean, schematic linework of architectural diagrams and the way ornament is broken into isolated, labelled forms.
