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Excerpt from Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London, Vol. 1: With Historical and Descriptive Accounts of Each Edifice
The architect, more than any other artist, is at the mercy of his personal employer, and of Committees. After making the most scientific and skilful plans, elevations, and sections, the result of much immediate study and of long experience, he finds the whole disorganised or materially injured by the presumptuous interference of some person or persons in power, whose chief or only qualifi cation arises from official in¿uence and length of purse. The architect's work, however, proceeds, his taste is impeached, and he too frequently stands stigmatised for imbecility and incapacity, when the fault has originated with others. If we do not greatly err in our conjectures, this will be the case in the north front of the Courts at Westminster, where a long extent of blank wall is made to range, and assimilate, with the highly decorated lower part of the adjoining Hall. Yet this is called Gothic imitation, and this.
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