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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 188

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air of her head. The second says,rather, Ill show you a trick worth two of that,and proceeds to obliterate the landscape and putsomething altogether different in its place. It isinconceivable, for example, that the Gothicbuilders would have converted a swamp into apleasure garden, as Louis XIV,… … ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE mediaeval builders did at Mont Saint Michel—without, at least, leveling and terracing the crag.In all true Gothic there exists so intimate arelation between the interior arrangement andthe exterior appearance—between the plan andthe elevation—that from a study of the latterthe…

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