Excerpt from The Ferro-Concrete Style: Reinforced Concrete in Modern Architecture; With Four Hundred Illustrations of European and American Ferro-Concrete Design
As eight centuries ago France was the birthplace of Gothic, so now the French take a prominent role in the creation of the Reinforced Concrete Style. Yet Germany and our own Pacific Coast as well as' individual architects in other countries have contributed to the new style almost as much as A. And G. Perret, the French leaders.
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