Why can there not be a new art founded on the only principle which can produce great art—the principle that art is the interpretation or extraction o… - Ernest Flagg

It is clearly apparent that in building the best results should accrue in proportion as every element in the structure is fitted both to the function it has to perform and the materials of which it is made. It follows from this that disguise and complication are hindrances, both to good construction and good design, and as complication and disguise are expensive and wasteful, that the interests of good art and true economy run on parallel lines.

Instead of the dormers, skylights... are easier to make and operate, need no double sash, cost less, and some may prefer their appearance.

Refinement. While the possession of this quality is due, in the first instance, to education, it is also largely a matter of temperament.