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Lewis Mumford
Sticks and Stones: A Study of American Architecture and Civilization
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338058874
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CHAPTER ONE
THE MEDIEVAL TRADITION
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For a hundred years or so after its settlement, there lived and flourished in America a type of community which was rapidly disappearing in Europe. This community was embodied in villages and towns whose mummified remains even today have a rooted dignity that the most gigantic metropolises do not often possess. If we would understand the architecture of America in a period when good building was almost universal, we must understand something of the kind of life that this community fostered.