cture.

To those who have liberally given their advice and suggestions in
response to requests from Professor Morgan, it is impossible for me to
make adequate acknowledgment. Their number is so great, and my knowledge
of the indebtedness in individual cases is so small, that each must be
content with the thought of the full and generous acknowledgment which
he would have received had Professor Morgan himself written this
preface.

Personally I am under the greatest obligations to Professor H. L.
Warren, who has freely given both assistance and criticism; to Professor
G. L. Kittredge, who has read with me most of the proof; to the Syndics
of the Harvard University Press, who have made possible the publication
of the work; and to the members of the Visiting Committee of the
Department of the Classics and the classmates of Professor Morgan, who
have generously supplied the necessary funds for the illustrations.

ALBERT A. HOWARD.

CONTENTS

BOOK I

PREFACE 3

THE EDUCATION OF THE ARCHITECT 5

THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE 13

THE DEPARTMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE 16

THE SITE OF A CITY 17

THE CITY WALLS 21

THE DIRECTIONS OF THE STREETS; WITH REMARKS ON THE WINDS 24

THE SITES FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS 31

BOOK II

INTRODUCTION 35

THE ORIGIN OF THE DWELLING HOUSE 38

ON THE PRIMORDIAL SUBSTANCE ACCORDING TO THE PHYSICISTS 42

BRICK 42

SAND 44

LIME 45

POZZOLANA 46

STONE 49

METHODS OF BUILDING WALLS 51

TIMBER 58

HIGHLAND AND LOWLAND FIR 64

BOOK III

INTRODUCTION