How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 318
tural designs whichit called Italian villas. These were actually reproducedin many parts of the country, because, unhappily, no oneseemed to know better. This was the black-walnut-and- 294 THE AMERICAN DECADENCE haircloth period abroad, and America responded with alack of taste that has already… … FIG. II4—THE BLACK-WALNUT PERIOD (VICTORIAN GOTHIC) a new era, which, however, was slow in coming. Just afterthe war the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wasfounded. This was the first school of architecture in theUnited States, and it played an important part in advan- 295 HOW TO KNOW…
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