Note 517 — CHAPTER 24 ARCHITECTURE CALLED TRADITIONAL IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Books of the period, such as American Architecture of 1928 by the distinguished architectural historian Fiske Kimball, or American Architecture of 470Today, also of 1928, by the then Dean of the Harvard University School of Architecture, G. H. Edgell, offer the later writer very little assistance. Kimball in the twenties was too ready to consider the continuance of the academic tradition assured—his chapter on Sullivan and Wright was entitled ‘The Lost Cause’—while Edgell offers such a miscellany of buildings that no clear picture emerges. Several attempts within the period to select its major monuments fixed on much the same lot as are given prominence here; but such selections hardly help to organize the work of the day in historical terms.