Stately homes in America : from colonial times to the present day (1903)
Desmond, Harry W. (Harry William), 1863-1913, Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930 · New York : D. Appleton and Company · leaf 26
sible, in an easy and natural frame ofmind. The sky-scrapers are triumphs of engineering,but not of architecture. The architect designs them be-cause he has to do so, but he designs his big residences outof the fulness of his knowledge, and with the best will inthe world. They betray his likes and… … MEN WHO BUILD FINE HOUSES tions, and finally his preference for aesthetic, rather thanstructural and social proprieties. What he wants aboveall is to get a stunning effect; and he is comparativelyindifferent whether that ** stunning effect is anythingmore than an architectural picture. It is as if…
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