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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 240

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tic sense,but it must be symbolically significant. Thiscan be accomplished if in some way ornamentcan be made to indicate the trend of con-sciousness—if some relation can be establishedbetween ornament and psychology. This mayseem at first thought an impossible proposition,but perhaps it is not so… … A BAY WINDOWFig. ii THE LANGUAGE OF FORM This is a phrase of varied and ambiguous mean-ings, often heard, yet little understood—under-stood least, perhaps, by those who use it most.To the mathematician it means a direction atright angles to every one of the so-called threedimensions of space. By…

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