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THREE REMINDERS TO ARCHITECT
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GRAIN ELEVATOR

ARCHITECTURE has nothing to do with the various “styles.”

The styles of Louis XIV, XV, XVI or Gothic, are to architecture what a feather is on a woman's head; it is sometimes pretty, though not always, and never anything more.

Architecture has graver ends; capable of the sublime, it