How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 329
nctly toward theclassic—one might almost say the more classic. Theseseem the dominant tendencies, but almost equally sig-nificant is the frequent and sound use of almost everystyle we have named. It is, as has been said, a period ofanalysis and experiment. Young America is trying toexpress herself,… … UR studies have led us up to thispoint along the central line of prog-ress, from Byzantium to Athens,thence to Rome, northward intoFrance, and so onward. Only oneoffshoot or back-water have we fol-lowed— that of the Byzantine intoRussia—and the others must be disposed of now. In travelling, either…
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