The English House: How To Judge Its Periods And Styles (1908) - Tapa dura

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English House and its evolution through the centuries. Many authors speak of this subject from a technical point of view, and are excellent guides for professional students ;but it happens that architecture depends for its support on the encouragement of laymen, on the patronage given to it by towns and by private enterprise ;hence the writing of books for architects only cannot do much good, since no appeal is made to the real patron and paymaster, the nation as a whole. In these circumstances architecture is neglected, and we find that although there are buildings everywhere in England that represent many styles and a long history of social changes, only a very few persons in a thousand know an Ionic column when they see it, or can tell the difference between Gothic and Classic
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