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Title: How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Architecture Architecture -- Study and teaching
Publisher: New York : The Baker & Taylor Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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APARTMENT HOUSE. ST. ALBAXS MANSIONS. LONDON.ILATE LX The Influence of the Developed Gothic its character as a Gothic structure is per-fectly maintained. It is to be judged, then,as an ancient Gothic building is to bejudged. One asks whether the system ofvaulting with ribs, and a filling or shell oflight stone work between the ribs, is sup-ported and resisted in the best and mosteconomical way by the system of buttress-ing, and whether this system of buttressingwithout, and the system of vaulting within,are equally expressed in the artistic design.The fact that the modern building cannotbe allowed the cost of much architecturalsculpture in its exterior, though unfortu-nate, cannot be urged as a serious defect, inview of the fact that the English mediaevalchurches have but little sculpture as com-pared with those of the Continent, theiradornment being concentrated more gen-erally upon the West front, or parts of theinterior. If now we try to call to mind some building inspired, on the

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