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Architecture should be at the head of the arts, not at the foot of the professions.
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Architecture, if it is to be good, must be efficient for its purpose, but efficiency for its purpose in architecture has a wider range than it has in engineering or in simple building, because in architecture the appeal to the aesthetic sense has to be taken into account, and if that appeal fails the architecture fails with it.
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To nail down architecture to merely utilitarian purpose is as unsound critically as it is to limit painting to mere brushwork or mere pattern or whatever the latest fad may be.
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Good architecture will always be as rare as good painting and good sculpture.
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Reginald Blomfield
Born:
December 20, 1856
Died:
December 27, 1942
(aged 86)
Bio:
Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield was a prolific British architect, garden designer and author of the Victorian and Edwardian period.
Known for:
The Formal Garden in England (1892)
The Mistress Art (1908)
Studies in architecture (1905)
A History of French Architecture
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