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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 158

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age thetrue principles of composition it will involun-tarily be a modern Renaissance, and with a viewto continuity we should take the eighteenthcentury as our starting-point, because herepractically ended the historic progression andentered the modern confusion. Imagine the anachronism of trying to… … TOURS CATHEDRAL MODERN ARCHITECTURE the past any style in the hope of doing as well aswas done in the time to which that style belonged.In other times they would not even restore oradd to a historic building in the style in whichit was first conceived. It is interesting to noticehow the architect…

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