Architecture and Democracy
Bragdon, Claude Fayette This book can lay no claim to unity of theme, since its subjects range from skyscrapers to symbols and soul states, but the author claims for it nevertheless a unity of point of view, and one (correct or not) so comprehensive as to include in one synthesis every subject dealt with. For according to that point of view, a skyscraper is only a symbol--and of what? A condition of consciousness, that is, a state of the soul. Democracy even, we are ...