# Balbus; or, the future of architecture

Author: Barman, Christian Augustus, 1898-1980

Genre: Category: Architecture

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75202

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Balbus%3B+or%2C+the+future+of+architecture+Barman&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It is often maintained that there is a similarity between architecture and dress in that both are applied as a covering, the one to the individual human body, the other to the body politic. But there is one thing that those who point to this similarity are not always careful to bear in mind, namely that it is precisely in their relation to this human content that the arts of architecture and dress differ most widely. The bodies of adult men and women are distinguished from one another only by a few small variations of colour and proportion. Of so little consequence are these departures from the universal norm that fashion experts are freely permitted to disregard their effect, and usually...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/balbus-or-the-future-of-architecture-75202/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/balbus-or-the-future-of-architecture-75202/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/balbus-or-the-future-of-architecture-75202/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/balbus-or-the-future-of-architecture-75202/chapters/4/index.md)