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Studies, because, although some of them have been executed and others submitted in competition, the greater number of them are simply sketches made for the purpose of exhibiting the various phases of architectural style. As a whole, they tend to illustrate certain general principles which I have always maintained ought to form the basis of all good architectural design. The first of these is that certain styles are best suited for certain requirements; for instance, that the Gothic, or its roots and offshoots, such as Byzantine andR omanesque whether Teutonic, Norman, or Lombard is best suited for churches and other buildings of ecclesiastical character ;that the Italian or French Renaissance is the most suitable for public offices and such-like edifices in which light and air are the chief necessities ;and that the pure Classic, Greek orR oman is best for museums and other buildings of a monumental character where dignity of effect has chiefly to be studied. This seems to me a common-sense view, although it is opposed to the opinions of those specialists who belong to either the Classic orG othic schools, and more especially to those of theE clectic school, whose efforts to produce a nineteenth-century style of architecture has resulted in designs which are medleys of the details of all periods, and which are offensive to the man of educated taste, who can recognise the origin of every detail, though they are tolerated by the general public, who are naturally ignorant of a subject which it takes a whole lifetime to master. Although I share with the Gothic school their intense admiration of the varied and beautiful forms of the architecture which they practise exclusively, I cannot admit the soundness of the argument they advance for its universal adoption viz., that it is our only national style; for this can only be affirmed of one period of it, the Perpen
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