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Title: Architecture and Democracy
Author: Claude Fayette Bragdon, 1918
File: Free Book, PDF 169 KB, 69 pages

Review
A philosphical discussion of architecture as it relates to democracy in the United States in the early 1900s and early modern period. "Architecture, at its worst as at ists best, reflects always a true image of the thing that produced it; a building is revealing even though it is false, just as the face of a liar tells the thing his wrords endeavor to conceal. This being so, let us make such architecture as is ours declare to us our true estate". Architecture and Democracy, Claude Fayatte Bragdon

Table of Contents

• Architecture and Order
  1. Before the War
  2. During the War
  3. After the War
• Ornament and Mathematics
  1. The World Order
  2. The Fourth Dimension
• Harnessing the Rainbow
• Louis Sullivan, Prophet of Democracy
• Color and Ceramics
• Symbols and Sacraments
• Self Education