The Textbook of Architecture

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Esquisse

Also called esquisses

The rapid preliminary sketch of a design made by a Beaux-Arts student, often in a twelve-hour session en loge, which fixed the parti.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Enlightenment and Revival.

Nearby in the glossary

Entablature · Entasis · Equilateral arch · Espalier · Eustyle · Exedra · Extrados · Eye-catcher