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... architecture of bygone ages . Not only has an immense mass of new materials been collected , but new principles of criticism have been evolved , and studies which in the last century were the mere amusement of the amateur , and ...
... architecture of bygone ages . Not only has an immense mass of new materials been collected , but new principles of criticism have been evolved , and studies which in the last century were the mere amusement of the amateur , and ...
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... Architecture ' ( about the year 1783 ) , the only styles known or thought worthy of attention were the Roman and the styles derived from it , with a dawning suspicion of the value of Greek art . Somewhat later ( in 1800 ) , when Durand ...
... Architecture ' ( about the year 1783 ) , the only styles known or thought worthy of attention were the Roman and the styles derived from it , with a dawning suspicion of the value of Greek art . Somewhat later ( in 1800 ) , when Durand ...
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... architectural library , nor even with the separate and detailed histories of local styles . The study of these is indispensable to a perfect ac- quaintance with the subject , but even this may be facilitated by a general résumé of the ...
... architectural library , nor even with the separate and detailed histories of local styles . The study of these is indispensable to a perfect ac- quaintance with the subject , but even this may be facilitated by a general résumé of the ...
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... architecture ? " " What are the true principles which ought to guide us in designing or criticising architectural objects ? " Fifty years ago the answers to these questions generally were , that architecture consisted in the closest ...
... architecture ? " " What are the true principles which ought to guide us in designing or criticising architectural objects ? " Fifty years ago the answers to these questions generally were , that architecture consisted in the closest ...
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... architecture than could be done by the mere application of any amount of ornament . If it is admitted that the last division in the diagram is an object of architecture , which the first is not , it follows from this analysis that ...
... architecture than could be done by the mere application of any amount of ornament . If it is admitted that the last division in the diagram is an object of architecture , which the first is not , it follows from this analysis that ...
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