Six lectures on architecture
A 1917 Chicago lecture book on architecture by Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas Hastings and Claude Bragdon, published for the Art Institute of Chicago by the University of Chicago Press, aimed at students and general readers of architectural history. Its plates are black-and-white photographs of European cathedrals, showing sculpted portals, towers, and dome silhouettes; a designer might take from them the layered rhythm of Gothic facades and the way tall towers and pinnacles frame a central entrance.
