Philadelphia’s architecture, by William F. Gray ... written for the City history society of Philadelphia and read at the meeting of Wednesday, February 9th, 1910 (1915)
Gray, William F · Philadelphia, The Society · leaf 42
themunicipal, to furnish high motives and Inspiration, sadly fails. 357 The Academy of Fine Arts is an essay in an original style which re-turns to first principles, but in its defiance of certain fundamental prin-ciples of abstract design and of construction has almost entirely failed.The… … PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTSBroad and Cherry Streets. Courtesy of John Wanamaker, the character of which is known only to a few, are things which woulddefeat any*design. Any architectural feature which is not self-explana-tory is wrong. The hope of a public library building such as all…
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