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Geoffrey Scott : The Architecture of Humanism. A Study in the History of Taste

Tuesday 28 September 1926: 'Intense depression: I have to confess that this has overcome me several times since September 6th [...] Somehow, my reading had lapsed [...] One night I got hold of Geoffrey Scott's book on Architecture, & a little spark of motive power awoke in me. This is a warning, then; never to cease the use of the brain.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

Geoffrey Scott : The Architecture of Humanism: A Study in the History of Taste

'At luncheon [read] Scott's "Architecture of Humanism", a valuable and permanent contribution to honest thought on the subject, and a book I rejoice to have. But Lord, how circumscribed are one's ideas without an occasional contradiction delivered well and flat between the eyes.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ronald Storrs      Print: Book

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