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IN the history of architecture class at the University of Illinois, Prof. Rexford Newcomb found it necessary to devise means whereby both lecturer and students could make full use of their opportunities. In these courses, which are largely presented by the illustrated lecture method, the students were compelled to write almost continuously in a darkened room, and much of the consequent distraction from the subject itself was obviated by supplying them with mimeographed sheets giving bibliographies, references, class assignments and directions—in fact, all the routine notes the writing down of which has no exercise value. From these sheets this very unusual book has been developed, and the author has done well to preserve and publish the valuable digest of the facts and examples on which his lectures were based. The fourth volume of the series is concerned with modern architecture—say from the beginning of the eighteenth century—and while American architecture is more freely referred to, historical, bibliographic and other data are collated from France, Great Britain, Germany, the Low Countries and Scandinavia.
Outlines of the History of Architecture
Prof.
Rexford
Newcomb
Part 4: Modern Architecture, with particular reference to the United States. By. Pp. xv + 318. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1939.) 20s. net.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 145, 297 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145297d0
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