# American Architecture: Studies Author: Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 Genre: Category: American Literature Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58697 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=American+Architecture%3A+Studies+Schuyler&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary The new departure is an apt name for what some of its conductors describe as the new “school” in architecture and decoration. It has still, after nearly ten years of almost complete sway among the young architects of England and of the United States, all the signs of a departure--we might say of a hurried departure--and gives no hint of an arrival, or even of a direction. It is, in fact, a general “breaking-up” in building, as the dispersion of Babel was in speech, and we can only and somewhat desperately hope that the utterances of every man upon whom a dialect has suddenly fallen may at least be intelligible to himself. From a “movement” so exclusively centrifugal that it assumes rather... ## Chapters - [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-architecture-studies-58697/chapters/10/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-architecture-studies-58697/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-architecture-studies-58697/chapters/8/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-architecture-studies-58697/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-architecture-studies-58697/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-architecture-studies-58697/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-architecture-studies-58697/chapters/12/index.md) - [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-architecture-studies-58697/chapters/9/index.md) - [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-architecture-studies-58697/chapters/13/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-architecture-studies-58697/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-architecture-studies-58697/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-architecture-studies-58697/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/american-architecture-studies-58697/chapters/11/index.md)