Contents

NO.   PAGE
I. The Character of Our Civic Buildings 1
II. Our Recent Government Buildings 7
III. The Office Block 13
IV. Bank Buildings in England and America 19
V. The Small Suburban House 25
VI. Our Big Railway Stations 31
VII. Religious Buildings of To-day 37
VIII. The Use of The Column 43
IX. The Emergence of a New Style 50
X. Who Destroyed Our Towns? 57
XI. Architecture and Youth 63
XII. Colour in Street Architecture 71
XIII. Everyday Architecture 77
XIV. Modern American Architecture 83
XV. The Choice of a Small Country House 100
XVI. Wren as a Baroque Architect 115
XVII. The Anti-social Contract 125
XVIII. An Indictment of Coal Smoke 131
XIX. The Bush Buildings of New York and London 138
XX. Bath or Bournemouth? 150
XXI. Regent Street, Old and New 166
XXII. Fifth Avenue, New York 175
XXIII. Liverpool Cathedral 184
XXIV. Dublin in 1924 201
  Author’s Note 206