FART III. ARCHITECTURE. 6Q 



DIVISION I. 



THE THEORY OF DESIGN IN ARCHITECTURE. 



CHAPTER I. 



UTILITY AND CONVENIENCE. 



So various are the purposes for which buildings are erected, 

 that to treat this subject at any length would far exceed the 

 proposed limits of this work, and would indeed be in a consi- 

 derable degree superfluous ; as it is a branch of knowledge 

 the application of which to architecture is better known than 

 most others. In contriving the internal arrangement of a 

 house, two things require to be considered : first, The nature, 

 magnitude, and number of the apartments or divisions ; and, 

 secondly, their connexion. 



In buildings for the inferior animals, as horses, cows, &c. we 

 commonly allow each individual a space equal to the square of 

 its own length ; in some cases more room is allowed, as in dog- 

 kennels, poultry-houses, &c. but in every case of this class of 

 buildings, the arrangement and connexion is perfectly simple 

 and universally understood. 



