Chapter I
Francis Plumptre Beresford Osmaston translation
INDEPENDENT AND SYMBOLIC ARCHITECTURE
Introduction and Subdivision 32
1. Works of architecture erected in order to unite peoples 36
2. Works of architecture intermediate between the arts of building and sculpture 38
(a) The influence of the generative activity of Nature on the form of buildings 39
(b) Further modification of similar conceptions in the obelisks of Egypt and other examples 40
(c) Temple enclosures, labyrinths, etc. 42
3. The transition from self-substantive architecture to the classical type 48
(a) The nature of subterranean dwellings 48
(b) Construction raised to house the dead in Egypt and elsewhere. The Pyramids 50
(c) Buildings that directly subserve a purpose as the point of transition to the classical type. The ordinary dwelling. The environment of the sculptured image. The adoption of the principle of expediency. The abstraction of parts of a building from the organic form, e.g., in the column 55