The Quarterly Review, Volume 246William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle John Murray, 1926 |
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... buildings , and though it is to be presumed that these buildings are efficient , with the exception of some half a dozen or so , they are exceedingly unattractive . The point that I have sought for in vain in Mr Robertson's book is what ...
... buildings , and though it is to be presumed that these buildings are efficient , with the exception of some half a dozen or so , they are exceedingly unattractive . The point that I have sought for in vain in Mr Robertson's book is what ...
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... building , if he could let his intelligence play freely round his problem , and if he was allowed by the authorities to do so . Shaw's building remains the finest public building erected in London since Somerset House . It is on the old ...
... building , if he could let his intelligence play freely round his problem , and if he was allowed by the authorities to do so . Shaw's building remains the finest public building erected in London since Somerset House . It is on the old ...
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... building seems to have been forgotten , a fallacy that we shall also meet in Mr Scott's essay . The architect is to be a purveyor of thrills for the onlooker ; apparently he is to follow the notorious example of the cubists , the ...
... building seems to have been forgotten , a fallacy that we shall also meet in Mr Scott's essay . The architect is to be a purveyor of thrills for the onlooker ; apparently he is to follow the notorious example of the cubists , the ...
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... buildings , so far as they can be ascertained by critical study , are a safer guide to practice than all the rhetoric in the world , and we shall never get to the root of the matter in æsthetic till we prefer the dry light of the ...
... buildings , so far as they can be ascertained by critical study , are a safer guide to practice than all the rhetoric in the world , and we shall never get to the root of the matter in æsthetic till we prefer the dry light of the ...
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... buildings , who was a pupil of Chambers , adhered strictly to the tradition of Chambers , and was quite uninfluenced by Wren's ... building is that of a gigantic cube in which holes are punched at regular intervals for doors and windows ...
... buildings , who was a pupil of Chambers , adhered strictly to the tradition of Chambers , and was quite uninfluenced by Wren's ... building is that of a gigantic cube in which holes are punched at regular intervals for doors and windows ...
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