For more than two thousand years architectural design by the use of a modulus, except in the case of the classic orders, had been a lost art. (Ernest Flagg)

For more than two thousand years architectural design by the use of a modulus, except in the case of the classic orders, had been a lost art.

Ernest Flagg

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