American renaissance; a review of domestic architecture (1904)
Dow, Joy Wheeler · New York, W. T. Comstock · leaf 270
ns our every day needs, much as it is criticised aboutour ears, our knowledge of it, nevertheless, continues tobe absurdly inexact and experimental. I am speakingnow of architecture as a fine art, not as the science ofan engineer. One has only to read the reviews to notehow little the authors… … Adaptation to mind a single statement wherein they have com-mitted themselves to anything definite V The wholeproposition architectonic is to the average reviewer anegregious bugbear before which he is anything but sureof himself. He hints at the mysteries of design, half advocating,halt…
Architecture -- United States
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