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The decorum of doors and windows, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2007

Peter Kohane  and
Michael Hill
Peter Kohane
Affiliation:
Faculty of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, 2052 Australiap.kohane@unsw.edu.au
Michael Hill
Affiliation:
Department of Art History and Theory, National Art School Forbes St East Sydney, 2010, Australiamichaelrh@fbe.unsw.edu.au
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Abstract

Doors and windows were once among the primary means of articulating a facade. Tailored to the orders, they expressed the symmetry that guided the overall design of a building.

Type
history
Information
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 141 - 156
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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