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Ernest Flagg était architecte américain.

✵ 6. février 1857 – 10. avril 1947
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“It was only within comparatively recent times that several refinements in Greek architecture… such as the slight entasis of the columns, the greater size of the corner columns, and the convex curve of the stylobate were discovered.”

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Source: Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922), Ch. II

“Harmony…. it is all embracing and should reign throughout—harmony in purpose, harmony in dimensions, harmony in form and harmony in color. In good design discord can have no place…. all may unite to form a complete, harmonious, and well-rounded composition…”

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“Interest…. a design to be great must have great interest…. the most potent of all ways to impart interest is to endow the design with beauty of form, and… the one which makes the strongest appeal to human interest and admiration is physical beauty in human shape.”

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“1st. Saving of time, trouble, and money in the preparation of plans by the module system, and the standardization of parts and methods.”

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

“Ridge-dormers have many other advantages. In winter, when closed… it is nature's own method of lighting. Ridge-dormers greatly reduce the height of the building; because bringing into use space heretofore wasted, the eaves may be correspondingly lowered.”

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Source: Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922), Ch. III

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