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                                                                      		point of degradation, had passed to the flamboyant
                                                                      		stage in which no surface being left, the renaissance
                                                                      		feeling was violently engrafted and forced into the skeleton
                                                                      		form, as at Cisons.  Before this however;  the first
                                                                      		degradation had taken place;  into
                                                                      		3.a. b1.  The Gothic of the  Netherland minaret Brussels &c
                                                                      		3.a. b2.  The perpendicular  Flamboyant:  St Ouen Spire
                                                                      			Parts of Beauvais: and the perpendicular foliation of
                                                                      			Troyes. [drawing]
                                                                      		3.a. b3   German penetrative Gothic,  Berne, etc.
                                                                      			3 a b4  The rich Spanish form, Burgos, I must study this
Conf. Young VII p 153:  Want and convenience, under workers lay       		and find its date.
			the basis on which love of glory builds.                           		It seems to me that one of the chief reasons for the
                                                                      		degradation of architecture, and for the mistaken pursuit
                                                                      		of new styles, is the want of sufficient consideration of
                                                                      		the simple Q into Fs to which all buildings may be reduced:
                                                                      		of the few necessities, the accomplishment of which, by
                                                                      		the best, i.e. commonly, simplest means, is the first
                                                                      		function of building.  Now the necessary parts of buildings
                                                                      		are simply four: the wall, roof, door, and window;  and by
                                                                      		the consideration of the most proper and natural forms
                                                                      		of these we may arrive at the  condition, or laws of
                                                                      		beauty in the most refined work.

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