The Building News and Architectural Review: A Weekly Illustrated Record, the Progress of Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Engineering, Metropolitan, Improvements, Sanitary Reform (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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This combined sense pervades the word now under consideration, an architect is a chief builder, because he builds in the highest, and best way, and his art is architecture or chief building, as being the noblest manner of building. He is also a. Chief builder as being director of Others, but that: this is the secondary sense of the word, the first named being the primary meaning, is significantly shown by the fact; that no analagous secondary sense attaches to the cognate term architecture.

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