House and Garden 
and the effect of all is 
that of so many city 
blocks. Spaciousness, 
therefore, the chief 
characteristic of a 
public building group, 
has been lost, even at 
the hands of such 
skillful designers as 
Messrs. Newman & 
Harris and Messrs. 
George B. Post & 
Sons, each of whom 
exhibit their schemes 
by means of six draw¬ 
ings. 
Projects of a purely 
imaginative nature are 
numerous and un¬ 
usually interesting. 
1 hey contain much 
that is inspiriting 
within the field of ab¬ 
stract design, wherein 
intellectual imagina¬ 
tion has free play. 
The particular con¬ 
siderations which 
would govern the car¬ 
rying out of these 
schemes and their 
basic requirements 
having been fulfilled, 
the designers have fol¬ 
lowed their fancy to 
lofty heights, unham¬ 
pered by the trifling 
details of execution in 
the solid. 
Professor Paul Phil¬ 
ippe Cret’s design for 
a Museum of Art and 
Archaeology represents 
architectural art in 
France in a sort of apotheosis. The site se¬ 
lected is a portion of the hillside rising steeply 
from the river at the city of Lyons. The dia¬ 
gram of the present topography shows how the 
author would locate his scheme, which he 
presents by four brilliantly executed drawings. 
1 hese display a vast court where debouches a 
new bridge across the Rhone. From this space 
a series of broad avenues ascend, open into 
esplanades and narrow again into winding 
and rockbound roadways, mounting the hill 
by easy gradients. Portions of these thor¬ 
oughfares are dedicated to the periods of 
architecture, such as the Epoque Primitive 
leading to the Foie Antique. This in turn 
reaches the esplanade Gallo-Romaine at which 
begins the devious journey of the Moyen 
Age. The avenues of the XVIth and XVIIth 
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