English Architecture (1904) - Tapa dura

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English A rchitecture. The great imaginative characteristics of our architecture its aesthetic and poetical qualities (I do not speak of Gothic architecture only) its shortcomings, its reflection of national character, the influences which shaped its course and led to its alternate rise and decline these are questions which cannot well be dealt with in the summary fashion of the following pages. The book might, in fact, be more accurately called an account of English building rather than of English architecture, if indeed it were not impossible to separate the two. The endeavour has been, first, to trace the gradual development of our architecture so far as to enable the reader to discriminate the styles, as Rickman has it; that is, to recognise approximately the date of any building he may visit; and then to give some account of the plan and arrangement of particular classes of buildings.
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