
The CFA found Paul Cret’s stripped classicism, best exemplified by the 1932 Folger Shakespeare Library, to be an admirable accommodation between traditional and modern architecture.
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The CFA found Paul Cret’s stripped classicism, best exemplified by the 1932 Folger Shakespeare Library, to be an admirable accommodation between traditional and modern architecture.
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