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Excerpt from Principles of Design in Architecture: Traced in Observations on Buildings Primeval, Egyptian, Phenician or Syrian, Grecian, Roman, Gothic or Corrupt Roman, Arabian or Saracenic, Old English Ecclesiastical, Old English Military and Domestic, Revived Grecian, Chinese, Indian Origin of Architecture. - Five principal Classes of Are/zi mama - Utility the foundation qf Defign in all Archi tecture. - Design controlled by materials. - First'buildingc in each class ofarclzz'tecture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.