Excerpt from The Architectural Review, Vol. 4: January December, 1916 Atrium ceiling andthe Reading-room on the main oor. Bronze has been utilized where metal was required, for the stacks, the Temple Room column bases and capitals, doors, grilles, ornamental brackets, and fittings. Ex cept the canopies over the thrones, woven materials have generally been set aside for others more per manent - leather, for in stance, being frequently substituted; and the walls are generally cased with limestone, Caen 'stone, or marble, touched with color or embellished with bronze. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

This polemic is essential reading for anyone converned with the state and direction of architecture and urban planning today and will provake wide-ranging discussion.

Conditional design is the sequel to Operative Design. This book will further explore the operative in a more detailed, intentional, and perhaps functional manner. Spatially, the conditional is the result of the operative. It is not a blind result however. Both terms work together to satisfy a formal manipulation through a set of opportunities for elements such as connections and apertures.

Excerpt from The Architectural Review, Vol. 17: January, 1905 Only people they are really to guard against are the impostors, people who know nothing of archi tecture, but can trick up a drawing; why, even painters, carpenters, and image-makers call them selves architects! All these things, he insists, with much volume and vehemence, are a sham; the architect is the man, the only true friend of the noble lord. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully.