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A text-book of the history of architecture (1904)

Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 414

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-Victorian Gothic styleresponded to no deepand o^eneral movementof the popular taste,and, like the Anglo-Greek style, wasdoomed to failure fromthe inherent incon-gruity between modern needs and medieval forms. Withinthe last twenty years there has been a quite general returnto Renaissance… … FIG. 217.—NATIRAI. HISTORY MlSEL\M, LnXDf>N. 382 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. adaptation to the materials and special requirements of eachcase. The Albert Memorial Hall (1863, by General Scott)may be taken as an early instance of this movement, and theImperial Institute (Colonial offices), by…

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