How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 296
inthe copied forms of the mother-country. There is here,however, a richness and an expression of power that is notNorthern (Fig. 105). The domestic or plaster chapel or monastery of Mexico,Texas, and Lower California, which was used as a missionand is generally so-called, is familiar in southern… … FIG. IO5—CHURCH IN MEXICO tiled roofs that are heavily lined with whitish-yellowcement at the joints and overhanging eaves. The wood-work is often panelled in a geometric fashion suggestingCairo and the Saracens. 1 he American prototypes of these monasteries are found 273 H(3\V TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE…
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