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Page 173
... grid and its pattern of implied stress gives the building its visual motif . - But Sullivan's greater achievement ( from the viewpoint of the architecture to come ) was to make the grid as expressive as the height . A modular frame of I ...
... grid and its pattern of implied stress gives the building its visual motif . - But Sullivan's greater achievement ( from the viewpoint of the architecture to come ) was to make the grid as expressive as the height . A modular frame of I ...
Page 175
... grid was the face of equality . Yet skyscrapers did not catch on in Europe . There were many reasons for this , but perhaps the main one was reluctance to surrender any central part of the old cities - Paris , Berlin , Vienna , or Milan ...
... grid was the face of equality . Yet skyscrapers did not catch on in Europe . There were many reasons for this , but perhaps the main one was reluctance to surrender any central part of the old cities - Paris , Berlin , Vienna , or Milan ...
Page 191
... grid with non - load - bearing walls . But the hallmarks of the International Style went beyond that , and were summed up in the sense of etiquette the Villa Savoye conveyed . One consequence of the grid was an emphasis on truth ...
... grid with non - load - bearing walls . But the hallmarks of the International Style went beyond that , and were summed up in the sense of etiquette the Villa Savoye conveyed . One consequence of the grid was an emphasis on truth ...
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