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Six lectures on architecture (1917)

Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942, Hastings, Thomas, 1860-1929, Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · Chicago, Ill., Pub. for the Art Institute of Chicago by the University of Chicago Press · leaf 225

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THE LANGUAGE OF FORM … of the Athenian Acropolis (see Fig. 7). The main proportions of French cathedrals were determined by this sort of triangulation, both in plan and in section, as Viollet le Due has shown in the first volume of his Discourses .

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