Citations:magpie architecture


 * 1901, Architecture, vol. 3–4, page 319 :
 * While we have learned the proper manner of converting, treating and using our materials, we are decidely [sic] backward in giving them their true expression in a building. It is not unusual to find a "mix up" of materials of very different kinds without any proper sense of relation, or gradation, or color—a kind of magpie architecture repulsive to the man of taste.