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... building is to provide shelter from the elements . There is a difference , how- ever , between building and architecture ; the meanest hovel is a building , as the most cacophonous metrical arrangement of words is verse , but the one ...
... building is to provide shelter from the elements . There is a difference , how- ever , between building and architecture ; the meanest hovel is a building , as the most cacophonous metrical arrangement of words is verse , but the one ...
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... Building , if not architecture , serves a biological purpose . A building , then , is there because it answers a material need . If it does this as efficiently as possible is it necessarily beautiful , or is a building a compromise ...
... Building , if not architecture , serves a biological purpose . A building , then , is there because it answers a material need . If it does this as efficiently as possible is it necessarily beautiful , or is a building a compromise ...
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... building . This device is most obvious in the more formal designs of classical buildings ; modern architects sometimes ignore it , as when they rely for their effect on the severity of their masses and dispense with a cornice . The ...
... building . This device is most obvious in the more formal designs of classical buildings ; modern architects sometimes ignore it , as when they rely for their effect on the severity of their masses and dispense with a cornice . The ...
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A. E. HOUSMAN abstract aesthetic emotion aesthetic sense anapaests appearance appreciation architect architecture artist beauty building century Cézanne classical CLIVE BELL colour combination conscious considered contrapuntal creative derived doth effect element English ERIC GILL essential experience expression eyes feeling flowers function Gothic Gothic architecture Greek hand harmony hear Herbert Read iambic ideas imagination imitation intellectual literal meaning living look medium Messrs metre mind nature never object onomatopoeia painter painting passage pattern picture Piero della Francesca pleasure poem poet poetic poetry prose pure rational realism Renaissance representation rhyme rhythm ROGER FRY Romantic sculpture sequence Shakespeare shape significance sonnet soul sound spondee Sprung Rhythm story style suggest sweet syllables T. S. ELIOT thee thing thou thought three-dimensional tones trochee true ugly unconscious mind verse visual art whole words writing yellow