The course and current of architecture; being an historical account of the origin, successive and simultaneous development, relations, periods, and characteristics of its various known styles (1863)
5 OF ARCHITECTURE. EGYPTIAN. … Egyptian architecture is the progenitor of a1’ Roman, Byzantine, Gothic, and other styles — the root of the main trunk of architectural history. If it be not the Adam of the architectural world, it is the Noah — the father of the present, and the orphan of a past one, of which no vestige remains,…
Architecture -- History
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