Architecture by Nancy Bell

Architecture
by Nancy Bell

Publisher: Project Gutenberg 2010
ISBN/ASIN: B0041VXCTK

Description:
It is only when a building entirely fulfils the purpose for which it is intended and bears the impress of a genuine style that it takes rank as a work of architecture. This definition, exclusive though it at first sight appears, brings within the province of the art every structure which combines with practical utility beauty of design and execution, from the humblest cottage to the most dignified temple or palace.

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A Text-book of the History of Architecture by Alfred D. F. Hamlin

A Text-book of the History of Architecture
by Alfred D. F. Hamlin

Publisher: Longmans, Green, & Co. 1906
ISBN/ASIN: B001F308OY
Number of pages: 492

Description:
The aim of this work has been to sketch the various periods and styles of architecture with the broadest possible strokes, and to mention, with such brief characterization as seemed permissible or necessary, the most important works of each period or style. Extreme condensation in presenting the leading facts of architectural history has been necessary, and much that would rightly claim place in a larger work has been omitted here.

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