The capital rests on the shaft. It has a load-bearing function, which
concentrates the weight of the entablature on the supportive column, but
it primarily serves an aesthetic purpose.
I cannot find back the source that discussed stone capitals as having been derived from a functional wood feature. They may have been rigorously defined in grammatical architecture, but they were decorative vestige of an earlier functional requirement. Or perhaps I dreamed the whole thing. :-(
Interesting. But so much classical architecture is focused on the interplay of various standard elements to form a harmonious whole. That blogpost is illustrated with and concentrates on standardized elements without considering whether changing those elements would affect the harmonious relations among these standard elements and thus the distinctiveness of the building.
Thereâs some level of meta going on in the first two posts that I canât quite pin down⌠Granted, I donât know much about these things (see my epic fail somewhere on this board with the spelling of Lynyrd Skynyrd), but I was tickled to see the band arrive in an ambulance; IIRC, the genesis of this lyric was a bandmemberâs revival from an OD by having andrenaline injected directly into his heart.
Donât be fooled by all the media hype and marketing; out in the field those things jam more often than not. Youâre better off with a Love Slingshot - 60% of the time it works 100% of the time. Plus the ammoâs a lot easier to replace quickly.
