How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 219
many of our private houses; but such buildingsas the New York Herald Building (Fig. 74), and its Veronaancestor (Fig. 75), the University Club, the Tiffany Build-ing (Fig. 76), and the small library in New York City(Fig. 77) are pure examples of the style. These buildingswere designed by the… … HE story of the introduction of clas-sicism into France is not one of sci-entific discovery, but rather of politicalambition. Charles VIII., last of theValois kings, sighed for a new worldempire to include Constantinople, Jeru-salem, and the East, as others hadsighed before him. He revived some old…
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