Excerpt from The Architectural Annual, 1906 It is clients of this type, that are the chief obstacle to any im provement of ourselves or our work, and the spirit they stand for is the chief lion in the path of any national stylistic development. It is frightful to realize that they may put their coarse impress on whatever may be accomplished in the future; a future to which no height is unscalable no progress too profound. Yet Architec ture has ever been the manifestation of National and not indi vidual ideals. No Latin ...
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Excerpt from The Architectural Annual, 1906 It is clients of this type, that are the chief obstacle to any im provement of ourselves or our work, and the spirit they stand for is the chief lion in the path of any national stylistic development. It is frightful to realize that they may put their coarse impress on whatever may be accomplished in the future; a future to which no height is unscalable no progress too profound. Yet Architec ture has ever been the manifestation of National and not indi vidual ideals. No Latin people has ever been able to express itself in the Architecture of the pointed arch; the Parthenon. Whatever we may say or know, is and ever must be, so far as we of the North are concerned, but a museum specimen to be measured and written about by the dry-as-dust professors of the schools. What is to be expected then of our present day civilization what of the ideas it manifests. It is doubtless ungracious to write in this fashion of those that give us such opportunities as we have, opportunities to which, too, we are only too frequently unable to rise. The more so since the state of afl'airs is apparently incurable and no efforts of ours can do more than mitigate conditions in individual cases. But it is conceivable that the time may come when ideals - both national and personal will have changed, and for the better. Though none may point out now, how this happy metamorphosis is to be brought about. 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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