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Through the Looking Glass · Coffee Break Collection 026 - It's a Small World - Various · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

End of on the Beach

Recording by Colleen McMahon

Small Country Houses of Today by Sir Lawrence Weaver.

Coffee Break Collection twenty six It's a Small World This is a Libravox recording.

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Small Country Houses of Today Introduction

There is no lack of books which illustrate various types of small modern country houses, both by photographs and plans, but they are, as a class, apt to be devoid of critical explanation, whether from the practical or aesthetic point of view.

House building is, moreover, a primitive instinct, and the story of its development takes an important part in the larger history of social growth.

Monographs on representative small country houses of today are

The buildings themselves are explained with notes on the conditions which determine their plan and treatment and their place in relation to English culture and

Inhabits can be estimated.

Since the end of the eighteenth century, architecture has been struggling with many vicious influences, and not least with the lack of tradition, both in design and construction.

The battle of the Styles has been fought, not without fierceness, but without very helpful results.

Now, after the lapse of a century devoted to groping experiments and detached electicisms,

The sleeping traditions have been renewed, not on merely imitative lines, but in the spirit of the old works.

This happy renaissance cannot march to success unless the public at large concerns itself with architecture and becomes informed as to the problems to be faced and the ends to be attained.

Building, in fact, needs to be brought back into the normal current of the

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