 Bengalis, taking advantage of the elasticity of the bamboo, universally employ in their dwellings a curvilinear form of roof, which has become so familiar to their eyes that they consider it beautiful. It is so in fact when bamboo and thatch are the materials...  Journal of the Department of Letters - Page 83by University of Calcutta. Department of Letters - 1927Full view - About this book
 | James Fergusson - Architecture - 1876 - 814 pages
...the chuttrio at Alwar (ante, p. 474), the Bengalis, taking advantage of the elasticity of the bambu, universally employ in their dwellings a curvilinear...familiar to their eyes, that they consider it beautiful (Woodcut No. 310). It is so in fact when bambu and thatch are the materials employed, but when translated... | |
 | James Fergusson - Architecture - 1876 - 792 pages
...the chuttrie at Alwar (ante, p. 474), the Bengalis, taking advantage of the elasticity of the bambu, universally employ in their dwellings a curvilinear form of roof, which has become so familiar to thoir eyes, that they consider it beautiful (Woodcut No. 310). It is so in fact when bambu and thatch... | |
 | James Fergusson - Architecture - 1891 - 786 pages
...the chuttrie at Alwar (ante, p. 474), the Bengalis, taking advantage of the elasticity of the bambu, universally employ in their dwellings a curvilinear form of roof, which has become so familiar to then- eyes, that they consider it beautiful (Woodcut No. 310). It is so in fact when bambu and thatch... | |
 | James Fergusson - Architecture - 1899 - 398 pages
...the chuttrie at Alwar (ante, p. 474), the Bengalis, taking advantage of the elasticity of the bambu, universally employ in their dwellings a curvilinear...familiar to their eyes, that they consider it beautiful (Woodcut No. 310). It is so in fact when bambn and thatch are tne materials employed, but when translate:!... | |
 | Walter Kelly Firminger - Calcutta - 1906 - 388 pages
...the Mahomedan and Hindu styles in more modern times. As already mentioned in describing the Chuttrie at Alwar, the Bengalis, taking advantage of the elasticity...brick architecture, its taste is more questionable. There is, however, so much that is conventional in architecture, and beauty depends to such an extent... | |
 | James Fergusson - Architecture - 1910 - 648 pages
...Bengalis, taking advantage of the elasticity of the bambu, universally 404. Modern Curved Korm of Roof. employ in their dwellings a curvilinear form of roof,...familiar to their eyes, that they consider it beautiful (Woodcut No. 404). It is so in fact when bambu and thatch are the materials employed, but when translated... | |
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