Word: gothicized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English gothic Architecture. Professor Edgell, Robinson Hall, Fine Arts...
...eyes open . . . leaves an indelible impression of chaos that is certainly without form, if it is not wholly void. Here one may see in a scant two miles (scant, but how replete with experiences!) treasure-trove of all peoples and all generations: Roman temples and Parisian shops; Gothic of sorts (and out of sorts) from the 'carpenter-Gothic' of 1845 through Victorian of that ilk, to the most modern and competent recasting of ancient forms and restored ideals . . . delicate little Georgian ghosts, shrinking in their unpremeditated contact with Babylonian skyscrapers that poise their towering masses of plausible masonry...
...Gothic restoration is neither a fad nor a case of stylistic predilections," he has written. It is ordered by "the great rhythm of human life that is the underlying force of history." Then he diverges to show history moving in 500-year cycles, one of which is to end, and with it the so-called "modern" era (from 1450 on), in 1950. Gothic alone embodies the spirituality, the truth "as absolute as the difference between right and wrong," that can survive. He predicts a "cataclysm." He cries in the night, with the language of Thomas Carlyle and the tone...
...that if newsgatherers had approached him last week for his esthetic views on skyscraper construction, the Gothic master-builder of the U. S. might have stunned them by replying, as he has said before, that "bird cage" or steel-frame construction, the enfant terrible of architecture, will probably grow up safely into a dignified adult. And he might have stunned them further-he the disciple of William Morris and deplorer of the vanishing of skilled craftsmen in wood, stone, embroidery, leather, stained glass-by telling them that he hopes some day to write a history of U. S. architecture which...
...railway terminal in Philadelphia, one nearly as costly in Cleveland, the world's hugest aquarium (Shedd), a $15,000,000 opera house and a super-power plant for Samuel Insull in Chicago. A book about such a son of Progress by the dean of Gothic America would be, in itself, an architectural portent...