Sticks and Stones: A Study of American Architecture and CivilizationBoni and Liveright, 1924 - 247 pages |
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... genuine community planning . It did not go by this name , perhaps , but it achieved the result . We have learned in recent years to appreciate the felicities of eighteenth - century colonial architecture , and even the earlier ...
... genuine community planning . It did not go by this name , perhaps , but it achieved the result . We have learned in recent years to appreciate the felicities of eighteenth - century colonial architecture , and even the earlier ...
Page 64
... genuine Greek temple in the way that a sepia photograph would represent a sunrise - the warm tones , the colors , the dancing procession of sculptures were absent ; it was a thinned and watered Greece that they called to mind . Indeed ...
... genuine Greek temple in the way that a sepia photograph would represent a sunrise - the warm tones , the colors , the dancing procession of sculptures were absent ; it was a thinned and watered Greece that they called to mind . Indeed ...
Page 84
... genuine architectural development might have led from a crude log cabin to a finished one , from a bare cabin to an enriched and garnished one , and so , perhaps , in the course of a century or so , to a fine country architecture and a ...
... genuine architectural development might have led from a crude log cabin to a finished one , from a bare cabin to an enriched and garnished one , and so , perhaps , in the course of a century or so , to a fine country architecture and a ...
Page 111
... genuine con- venience for the well - to - do visitor to a city ; it gives him the atmosphere of a home without many of its major complications , and those who got the taste for this life in Paris were not altogether absurd in de- siring ...
... genuine con- venience for the well - to - do visitor to a city ; it gives him the atmosphere of a home without many of its major complications , and those who got the taste for this life in Paris were not altogether absurd in de- siring ...
Page 118
... genuine ; but although Mr. J. G. Rogers ' Harkness Memorial at Yale , and Messrs . Goodhue and Cram's St. Thomas ' Church , for ex- ample , leave little to be desired in themselves , they have established no precedent for the hundred ...
... genuine ; but although Mr. J. G. Rogers ' Harkness Memorial at Yale , and Messrs . Goodhue and Cram's St. Thomas ' Church , for ex- ample , leave little to be desired in themselves , they have established no precedent for the hundred ...
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Sticks and Stones: A Study of American Architecture & Civilization Lewis Mumford Affichage du livre entier - 1924 |
Sticks and Stones: A Study of American Architecture and Civilization Lewis Mumford Affichage du livre entier - 1924 |
Sticks and Stones: A Study of American Architecture and Civilization Lewis Mumford Affichage du livre entier - 1924 |
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