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First Line: Not magnitude, not lavishness
Last Line: But reverence for the archetype.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Greece; Greeks


Not magnitude, not lavishness,
But Form -- the Site;
Not innovating wilfulness,
But reverence for the Archetype.





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