How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 158
nism into the pinnacled glori-fication of assurance, beflowered and besainted, economicalof material, but necessary as the bones of the human or-ganism are necessary—an external rather than an internalskeleton. You can readily see how, as the nave, with its vaultedand ribbed ceiling, grew in… … HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE peculiar domination over sentiment and intellect, so thebuttress must climb to support its ambition. As it climbs it opens out into a flying arch carryingsafely to the ground the loads laid upon it by the aspiringvaults erected to Idealism (Fig. 53). But even this creation…
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