. Factory and industrial management . eutilitarianism, an utter absence of all attempts at architectural effect(except in the rare cases where architectural considerations are para-mount and the best can be achieved), would be infinitely better thanthe halting, blundering, ignorant productions that are neither goodarchitecture, good engineering, or good sense. A Florentine once saidto me, with real Italian enthusiasm: I love the houses along thestreets and their dear, familiar faces. \\hen 1 go out for a morningwalk, they seem to bow in kindly recognition and return my greetingas if they were
. Factory and industrial management . eutilitarianism, an utter absence of all attempts at architectural effect(except in the rare cases where architectural considerations are para-mount and the best can be achieved), would be infinitely better thanthe halting, blundering, ignorant productions that are neither goodarchitecture, good engineering, or good sense. A Florentine once saidto me, with real Italian enthusiasm: I love the houses along thestreets and their dear, familiar faces. \\hen 1 go out for a morningwalk, they seem to bow in kindly recognition and return my greetingas if they were really glad to see me. It would require a powerfulimagination to fancy the fearfully and wonderfully designed facades inany American city possessing either the ability or the disposition to doanything but stupidly stare friends and foes out of countenance andcomplacently flaunt their own ugliness. I know it is one thing to say these disagreeable things about every-day architecture, and (luite another to make their truth apparent, be-. IIICII r-lRKKT, DXFORl), ENGLAND. AN ARRAIGNMENT OF CITY ARCHITECTURE. 39
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