The Influence of Material on Architecture

by Banister Flight Fletcher

Excerpt from The Influence of Material on Architecture

The Renaissance period, again, is a period of relapse — one where materials no longer forming the style, the same design is found executed in very varied materials....

41 pages, Hardcover

First published September 27, 2015

About the author

Sir Banister Flight Fletcher (15 February 1866, London – 17 August 1953, London) was an English architect and architectural historian, as was his father, also named Banister Fletcher. They wrote the standard textbook A History of Architecture, which is also often referred to just as Banister Fletcher.