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Thousands of articles from the past.

Broadsides And Folders - (Found June 29, 2008 )

THE word broadside is ordinarily applied to large advertising folders. Who invented the name I don't know. The name has an impressive naval sound.
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Story Of Architecture - (Found June 29, 2008 )

ARCHITECTURE, the most useful of the fine arts and the finest of the useful arts, may be defined as the art of ornamental construction.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/architecture-20.shtml

Trade And Scientific Factors - (Found June 29, 2008 )

THE intimate relation of architecture to trade is dramatically illustrated in your own act of building a house.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/architecture-2.shtml

From Louis XVI To Modern France - (Found June 29, 2008 )

During the reign of the fifteenth Louis there was license without restraint, and in the reign that followed a reaction came which expressed its protest in the architecture, giving us restraint without license.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/architecture-19.shtml

The Architect And The Future - (Found June 29, 2008 )

LITTLE has been said in this book concerning the individual, the architect, who has through the ages carried on and developed the laws of the language of building.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/architecture-18.shtml

Progress In Other Countries - (Found June 29, 2008 )

Here was certainly the basic element for architectural creation, and yet we do not find it. Instead, we discover a period of imitation and copying.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/architecture-17.shtml

The American Decadence - (Found June 29, 2008 )

Just after the war the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded. This was the first school of architecture in the United States, and it played an important part in advancing the cause of sound architecture.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/architecture-16.shtml

The Georgian In America - (Found June 29, 2008 )

A little further study will differentiate for you the English revival and the Italian revival, the Philadelphia Georgian and the Georgian of Boston or of Annapolis.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/architecture-15.shtml

The Georgian Period Of England - (Found June 29, 2008 )

He was followed by John Gibbs, Sir John Vanburgh, Sir William Chambers, and others among the architects, and by Chippendale, Thomas Johnson, Grinling Gibbons, Sheraton, Hepplewhite, Pergolesi, and the brothers Adam among the allies.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/architecture-14.shtml

Parallel Developments In England - (Found June 29, 2008 )

ENGLAND'S architectural progress in the development of styles is dependent to a great extent on the creative power of the Franks.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/architecture-13.shtml