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The two great rules for design are these: 1st, that there should be no features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction or propriety; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of the essential construction of the building. The neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present time.
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Pugin, Augustus Welby. True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture. J. Weale, 1841.
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