Remarks on secular & domestic architecture, present & future
Remarks on secular & domestic architecture is an 1858 London treatise by the architect George Gilbert Scott, published by John Murray for architects and builders interested in the Gothic revival. The single picture is an engraved townscape of a Gothic market square, with a tall spired civic building on the left, a lofty campanile at centre, and an arcaded palace on the right, labelled Borgo, Bas and Soue (Bruges and Ypres-style names) along the base. A designer could take from it the stacked pointed arches, tracery windows and crowded silhouette of medieval civic architecture as a model for ornamental skylines and Gothic pattern.
