How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 196
rd of its creators. And here,for the first time in more than a thousand years, was a peo-ple equipped temperamentally and intellectually to appre-ciate it. We can imagine with what gusto the Frenchbuilders seized on the new inspiration, finding it so strange-ly fitted to their needs. There were… … HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE for great ingenuity of adjustment. Classic architecturewas born, for example, under brilliantly sunny skies, andwas transplanted to a land of gray skies and rain andsnow. The life and language of the South is gentle, andthe language of the moldings and the parts of the…
Architecture
Internet Archive · New York Public Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
