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The New Architecture
Haskell, Douglas | August 20, 1930 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Modern Architecture," by Henry-Russell Hitchcock. The book begins with "ruins" and "fabricks" of romantics, their literary revivals of the antique and their almost total loss of craftsmanship and structural engineering. It continues through beginnings of a new rationality, when the confusion of antique and remote tongues was smelted together again into something like an architectural language, the various borrowed features being freely applied side by side in modified form, with orderly and craftsman like effects, on a rational plan. At this period architecture and engineering ran once more hand in hand. The book ends on the "new pioneers."

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MODERN Architecture (Book); HITCHCOCK, Henry Russell, 1903-1987; BUILDING; ARCHITECTURE; ARCHAEOLOGY; STRUCTURAL engineering; WORKMANSHIP
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