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[...].. .TALBOT HAMLIN ARCHITECTURE an art for all Architecture because New York all is an men are art for all men concerned with it men to learn Ritskin COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS COPYRIGHT 1947 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW YORK First printing March, 1947 Second printing November, 1947 Third printing 1955 PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN, CANADA, INDIA, AND PAKISTAN BY GEOFFREY CUMBERLEGE: OXFORD UNIVERSITY... lives Architecture, then, else it is bad art, or an is we art, and any art must are abnormally blind give us pleasure, or To architecture as an and the joy it brings we are in general too callous It is the con stant proximity of architecture during our entire conscious existence that has blinded us in this way forget that it is an art of here art We and now, because it is with us every day, and because... architec tural department of the Museum of Modern Art for help and sug tecture of Columbia University for gestions in connection with illustrations and for the loan of many photographs; Mr F L S Mayer for photographs of the Nebraska State Capitol; Mrs James Ford and the Architectural Book Publish ing Company for permission to use illustrations from Ford and The Modern House in America and the same authors'... while, will not die on analysis, like a flower picked to pieces, but will rather, as we examine it, take on definiteness and and be reborn in all poignancy sorts of new ways First of all among the pleasures that architecture can give is that which anything beautiful brings to an understanding heart, which warms the whole being and sends one about his work gladder and stronger and better Then there is... University Press for their co-operation in suggesting the continued need for this work and in giving it physical and concrete reality The staffs of the Avery and Ware libraries have been continuously helpful in search ing for and lending illustrative material I also wish to thank Dean Leopold Arnaud of the School of Archi encouragement and for reading the manuscript; Mrs Elizabeth Mock and the staff of... Fireproof Construction From Talbot Hamlin' s Architecture through the Ages (New York, G P Putnam's Sons, 1940, 1944) Drawn by G 2 J Wise 26 Freeman House, Los Angeles, California (plan) Frank Lloyd Wright, 3 architect Drawn by of The International Modern Art, 1932) House Dana, 5 6 43 Tugendhat House, Brno, Czechoslovakia (plans) L Mies Van der Rohe, architect From Hitchcock and Johnson's 4 the author... photographs, courtesy Museum of Modern Art XXXII Baldwin Hills Village, California Lewis Eugene Wilson, Clarence Stein, and others, architects From a photograph by Margaret Lowe, courtesy Museum of Modern Art 232 ARCHITECTURE an art for all men 1 THE APPEAL OF ARCHITECTURE DAYS art THE are swiftly passing was valued tical matters of when, to the normal American, something distinctly secondary to the... life We of appreciation, and music and painting and sculpture and literature bring us a real joy But there is one enormous source of artistic pleas ure of which too few are as yet aware; there is one art whose works confront us wherever man lives, which all too many of us daily pass blindly by us; that art That source is is be found in the buildings to all around the art of architecture This blindness... estate subdivisions all over the countryside It thus seemed a propitious time The Enjoyment to undertake a complete rewriting aim of preserv ing its original character as an elementary guide to the under standing and appreciation of architecture as a whole and of making of of Architecture, with the double We live in a world in an introduction to the architecture of today wars and change, the past has... University, June, 1946 CONTENTS 1 The Appeal 2 Architecture and Construction 22 3 Planning 36 4 Form 66 5 The 6 Interiors in Architecture 125 7 The 144 8 Decoration and Structure 178 9 The Meaning 200 10 of Architecture in Architecture Architect's Materials Decorative Material of Architecture of Style Architecture and the Community 3 100 225 Suggested Supplementary Reading 257 Epilogue 255 Index 263 LIST . Taliesin West, near Phoenix, Arizona: main entrance. Frank Lloyd Wright, architect P, (lu TALBOT HAMLIN ARCHITECTURE an art for all men Architecture is an art for all men to learn because all men are concerned with it Ritskin New York COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS COPYRIGHT 1947 COLUMBIA. thank Dean Leopold Arnaud of the School of Archi tecture of Columbia University for encouragement and for reading the manuscript; Mrs. Elizabeth Mock and the staff of the architec tural department of the Museum of Modern Art for help and sug gestions in connection with illustrations and for the loan of many photographs; Mr. F search ing for and lending illustrative material. I also wish to thank Dean Leopold Arnaud of the School of Archi tecture of Columbia University for encouragement and for reading the manuscript; Mrs. Elizabeth