Abstract
John Soane's (1753-1837) second publication, Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Buildings...(1789) consists of an introduction and drawings and comments of 22 works, most of which were executed. In his introduction Soane discusses architecture in many ways and his idea of planning houses and his practical viewpoint of building have already been established. On analysis of 6 houses on which Soane inserted only one sheme of planning, a manner of forming a plan of houses by combining a main axis and several sub axes was applied on 4 houses. These houses have already realized his idea of planning houses mentioned in his introduction.
