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onception of a building.The function of architecture is not to apply ornament tobuilding, but to create, in building, an artistic unity sopervading that it shall be impossible to detach any onequality or detail without an inevitable sense of loss. In SirEdwin Lutyens work, regarded as a whole, it… … 12.—Library at 16 Lower Berkeley Street. cc The Spirit of Place 27 CHAPTER IITYPICAL EARLY WORKS—(1890-1898) The Influence of Surrey—Crooksbury House—Ruckmans—MissJekylls Home, Munstead Wood. THE spirit of place, to use a phrase of Mrs. Meynell,has a marked influence on the work of any artist.It is…
