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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.

Ralph Adams Cram

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

Ralph Adams Cram

Ralph Adams Cram

Ralph Adams Cram

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Born: December 16, 1863

Died: September 22, 1942 (aged 78)

Bio: Ralph Adams Cram was a prolific and influential American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often in the Gothic Revival style. Cram & Ferguson and Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson are partnerships in which he worked.

Known for:

Black spirits & white (1895)
Impressions of Japanese Architecture
Walled towns (1919)
Towards the Great Peace (1922)

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