Rita Boutros
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Through the Looking Glass · Coffee Break Collection 026 - It's a Small World - Various · 23 Jul 2026
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The old metaphysical society had one rule.
That there should be no rules, and domestic architecture needs alike freedom from fetters.
Every sight, every difference in personal need, every vagary of individual fancy sets up new conditions.
These have to be examined in the light of architectural traditions and possibilities and translated into the substance of brick and stone by the skill which the architect is able to bring to his work.
There are of course some outstanding differences in principle and practice which distinguish various schools of design.
There are plans, rambling or symmetrical.
Some facades rely on eighteenth century motives, and others take their inspiration from the purely vernacular building traditions of an earlier day.
About these divergences it is useless to dispute
My motive has been to exclude no type of house that
Which have intrinsic merit and are free from affectations, but rather to exhibit to the public the
Aye, the immense variety which lies open to the straying choice.
In an introductory chapter it is impossible, save at inordinate length, to discuss the broad stylistic divisions of treatment or the individual characteristics which thoughtful architects stamp upon their work.
In any case, it seems better to deal in a separate monograph with each house which thus has its chief qualities explained and emphasized.
I would add that I have endeavoured to treat the subject clearly and without technicalities, and to criticize the work illustrated sympathetically yet frankly.
The character of the houses, taken as a whole, not only shows the admirable work which is being done today, but gives infinite hope for the future.
It enables us in our architectural outlook to hold with firmness the cheery general creed of Robert Louis Stevenson.
I believe in the ultimate decency of things.
End of Small Country Houses of Today Introduction
The Unknown Soldier by Haywood Brown.
Coffee Break Collection twenty six It's a small world.
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