Sticks and Stones: A Study of American Architecture and CivilizationBoni and Liveright, 1924 - 247 pages |
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... Greek city : it does not continue to grow at such a pace that it either becomes over- crowded within or spills beyond its limits into de- jected suburbs ; still less does it seek what we iron- ically call greatness by increasing the ...
... Greek city : it does not continue to grow at such a pace that it either becomes over- crowded within or spills beyond its limits into de- jected suburbs ; still less does it seek what we iron- ically call greatness by increasing the ...
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... the forms of Roman and Greek civilization , and towards the meaning of classical culture . On the latter side its impulse was plainly a liberating one : it delivered the human soul from [ 39 ] The Heritage of the Renaissance.
... the forms of Roman and Greek civilization , and towards the meaning of classical culture . On the latter side its impulse was plainly a liberating one : it delivered the human soul from [ 39 ] The Heritage of the Renaissance.
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... Greek temple . One does not have to go very deep to fetch up the obvious parallel between the land - monopoly and slavery that prevailed in the American manors and the conditions that permitted the Roman villa itself to assume its ...
... Greek temple . One does not have to go very deep to fetch up the obvious parallel between the land - monopoly and slavery that prevailed in the American manors and the conditions that permitted the Roman villa itself to assume its ...
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... Greek manner favored by a later generation . It is only on closer inspection that one discovers that the ornament has become an illiterate reminis- cence ; that the windows are bare openings ; that the orders have lost their proportions ...
... Greek manner favored by a later generation . It is only on closer inspection that one discovers that the ornament has become an illiterate reminis- cence ; that the windows are bare openings ; that the orders have lost their proportions ...
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... Greek methods of building to America . Origi- nally , the Greek temple had probably been a wooden building . Its columns were trees , its cornices ex- posed beams ; and the architect's new opportunity to fabricate mightily in wood may ...
... Greek methods of building to America . Origi- nally , the Greek temple had probably been a wooden building . Its columns were trees , its cornices ex- posed beams ; and the architect's new opportunity to fabricate mightily in wood may ...
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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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