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Six lectures on architecture (1917)

Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942, Hastings, Thomas, 1860-1929, Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · Chicago, Ill., Pub. for the Art Institute of Chicago by the University of Chicago Press · leaf 126

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cutting of new avenues and the building of newsquares and parks has been governed or guidedby men of thorough architectural training. In this country, I feel that with the manygood intentions in the appointment of federalcommissions for the planning of the futuredevelopment of cities, we architects… … ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION where work has been either entirely abandonedor engineers have been employed and the archi-tects disregarded. This is a great economic aswell as practical mistake. The plan, once determined and well studied,should suggest all it will in elevation and deter-mine, in a way,…

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