Originality

Progress, Volume XII, Issue 6, 1 February 1917, Page 871

Originality

A day never passes without our hearing of our English architects called upon to be original and to invent a new style: about as sensible and necessary exhortation as to ask of a man who has never had rags enough on his back to keep out cold, to invent a new inode of cutting a coat. Give him a whole coat first and let him concern himself about the fashion of it afterwards. We want no new style of architecture. Who wants a new style of painting or sculpture? But we want some style“ Buskin.” * # * * “Proportion is, of course, the real secret'of architectural dignity.” — Charles Nicholson.