How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 324
xisting traditions. The modern sky-scraper inits structural form presents a problem which parallelsthat of the Gothic mass. It is narrow, tall, and in needof light, and here in the Gothic, with its perpendicularaccents, its absence of the foolish and unnecessary cornice,and its theory of… … FIG. Il6 LOWER STORIES, MODERN OFFICE BUILDING, NEW YORK CITY (GOTHIC) A /
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