The American Institute of Architects was quite right recently when it made Banister Fletcher its Book of the Century. The tome has been bought for 100 years by every architectural student who could posssibly scrape together the shillings. It has no rivals in its marvellous analysis of the great works of the European past. If you want to compare St Peter's to the Pantheon or Hagia Sophia, you turn to Banister Fletcher for the measured drawings and a succinct description.
The problem for its successive editors has been to keep up Fletcher's scholarly rigour and extend it. The first ...
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