Excerpt from Reason in Architecture: Lectures Delivered at the Royal Academy of Arts in the Year 1906 The moral it is intended to point is briefly this. That the styles of the past, which we have been taught to take as our models, assumed the forms, under which we know them, not from arbitrary design or fancy, but as a consequence of rational and logical de ve10pment from causes partly external and partly social, which are discoverable, and with out knowing which the style is only imper fectly understood. That the ...
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Excerpt from Reason in Architecture: Lectures Delivered at the Royal Academy of Arts in the Year 1906 The moral it is intended to point is briefly this. That the styles of the past, which we have been taught to take as our models, assumed the forms, under which we know them, not from arbitrary design or fancy, but as a consequence of rational and logical de ve10pment from causes partly external and partly social, which are discoverable, and with out knowing which the style is only imper fectly understood. That the external causes may practically be summed Up under the head of necessities or conveniency Of construction. That, as in the past progress and fresh depar tures in the Art can be accounted for by changes in conditions such as these, from one generation to another, so at the present day our Architecture will depend for its vitality upon its accommodation to the circumstances of the day. Consequently, that the mere blind following of ancient example in which most modern schools have thought to find safety will lead us no whither; that Archaeology is not Architecture; and that it is the spirit rather than the letter of the great styles of the past that will be of use to us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Good. 1906. First Edition. Cloth, 8vo, xvi and 189pp. Soiling and bumping to boards. Foxing to leaves. Previous owner's bookplate on ffep. (Subject: Architecture & Urban Design. )
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Very Good- No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 189 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ white spine. Gilt title on binding. Lightly soiled. Foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents nice.
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