Ralph Adams Cram: An Architect's Four Quests- Medieval, Modernists, American, Ecumenical

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CONTENTS Preface and Acknowledgments ix I. Knight's Move 3 2. The Medieval Quest 23 3. A House Divided 65 4. The Modernist Quest 101 5. Churches Built in Time of War 173 6. Merlin in Bloomsbury 211 7. Mediterranean Inspirations 245 8. Design Process 269 9. The American Quest 309 10. The Ecumenical Quest 341 11. Moderne Denouement 453 Notes 524 Checklist of Ralph Adams Cram's Job Books 575 Illustration Credits 588 Index 589 Color plates follow page 296. Cram lent himself more than once to various carvers of gargoyles; best of all, perhaps, is this determined visage in the eyeglasses on Brunet Hall of the University of Richmond. ...