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Title: The Poetry of Architecture
Author: John Ruskin, 1838
File: Free Book, ZIP 1.01 MB, 172 pages (plus)

Review
"It is for this reason that the cottage is one of the embellishments of natural scenery which deserve attentive consideration. It is beautiful always, and everywhere. Whether looking out of the woody dingle with its eye-like window, and sending up the motion of azure smoke between the silver trunks of aged trees; or grouped among the bright cornfields of the fruitful plain; or forming gray clusters along the slope of the mountain side, the cottage always gives the idea of a thing to be beloved: a quiet life-giving voice, that is as peaceful as silence itself."
John Ruskin, The Poetry of Architecture

The Poetry of Architecture is an analysis of residential architecture in Europe. His first of many influential books, John Ruskin's lectures at Oxford and books influenced a whole generation of architects, artists and designers like William Morris and Gustav Stickley. Inspiring a movement which became the Arts & Crafts Movement of Britain and the United States.

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Part 1
  o The Lowland Cottage - England and France
  o The Lowland Cottage - Italy
  o The Mountain Cottage - Switzerland
  o The Mountain Cottage - Westmoreland
  o A Chapter on Chimneys
  o The Cottage - Concluding Remarks
  
  
• Part 2
  o The Mountain Villa - Lago Di Como
  o The Mountain Villa - Lago di Como (continued)
  o The Italian Villa - (continued)
  o The Lowland Villa - England
  o The English Villa - Principles of Composition
  o The British Villa - Principles of Composition
  (The Cultivated, or Blue Country, and the Wooded or Green Country)
  o The British Villa - Principles of Composition
  (The Hill, or Brown Country)