CHAPTER I

INDEPENDENT AND SYMBOLIC ARCHITECTURE

Introduction and Subdivision

1. Works of architecture erected in order to unite peoples

2. Works of architecture intermediate between the arts of building and sculpture

(_a_) The influence of the generative activity of Nature on the form of buildings

(_b_) Further modification of similar conceptions in the obelisks of Egypt and other examples

(_c_) Temple enclosures, labyrinths, etc.

3. The transition from self-substantive architecture to the classical type

(_a_) The nature of subterranean dwellings

(_b_) Construction raised to house the dead in Egypt and elsewhere. The Pyramids

(_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

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