The English home / by Banister Flight Fletcher, and Herbert Phillips Fletcher; with an introduction by His Grace the Duke of Argyll, K.T., with 366 illustrations.

  • Sir Banister Fletcher
Date:
1910
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The English home / by Banister Flight Fletcher, and Herbert Phillips Fletcher; with an introduction by His Grace the Duke of Argyll, K.T., with 366 illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    premises, the grandeur and dignity of our public buildings and churches, the effective treatment of our bridges, and the general aspect of our streets depend upon the adoption of suitable architectural treatment, the application of sound architectural principles, and the co-ordination of the various parts of the plan. People are beginning to show a little interest in town-planning as a matter of national concern, and the sequel of this may be that architecture will take its place as a necessary part of any liberal education, for it teaches men not only to know but to do the right thing in the right place in the matter of building. In Stalky Junior Rudyard Kipling makes someone say that he thought all floors were of solid wood, instead of having joists or beams of timber at inter- vals supporting thin floor-boards. It has been suggested to the Brothers Fletcher that a book written in a terse and popular style and giving concise information about details of the house would be of practical use and interest to the public. Many books have been published dealing with small houses, but they are mostly of the scrap-book type of “pretty pictures ” collected by the amateur. This book attempts to explain the “why and where- fore ” of things in building and to draw attention to essentials in design and construction from the point of view of the layman. Messrs. Fletcher have dealt with sanitary construc- tion at some length in their book upon Architectural Hygiene but that work is written more especially for the architect.