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A FABLE FOR ARCHITECTS

Once upon a time a savage race came into possession of a great island which had formerly been the home of a people far advanced in civilization. There were traces of their occupancy everywhere. In particular, the country was marked with tall chimneys, all that remained of the great factories once used by the bygone race. The savages had no knowledge of building, but they found that by putting a few floors and ladders in these chimneys, puncturing a few holes through the walls for doors and windows, and finally knocking off the upper half of the smoke-stack, they could make for themselves a house, very strong, very inconvenient, but still a possible dwelling. ..text pokračuje