“When one understands the principles of design”

— Ernest Flagg

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Context: When one understands the principles of design, his taste will have something more solid as a basis than mere whim or fancy, which in the untutored is more likely to be bad than good. Acquainted with the rules of good design he will not accept articles made in defiance of them.

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American architect 1857–1947

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