Macartney, Mervyn E. The Practical Exemplar of Architecture Being Measured Drawings and Photographs of Examples of Architectural Details. Technical Journals, Ltd.: Westminster, 1911-.

Collection: Ayres & Ayres, Architects

The Practical Exemplar of Architecture Being Measured Drawings and Photographs of Examples of Architectural Details is a six-volume publication of plates incorporating photographs and measured drawings of exemplary architecture. Curated by architect Mervyn E. Macartney, the selections included in each of the six volumes establish ‘reliable and correct’ design articulations that canonize architectural expression. Documented elements establish a roster of architecture and design essentials whose right execution is meant to function as a safeguard against shoddy adaptation and imitation. The first series examines balustrading in various materials, cornices, gate and wall piers, screens and more. Similarly, the remaining five installments deal in a whole host of visual documentation that establishes the architectural practice as a puzzle craft executed through the assembly of rightly articulated elements.

Library of Congress call number: NA 2841 M28 1911 Ser. 1-Ser. 6