ABSTRACT
A quotation from John Ruskin (1819-1900) opens Chapter IV of The American Vitruvius: an Architect’s Handbook of Civic Art by Werner Hegemann and Elbert Peets:
There is a charm and sacredness in street architecture which must be wanting to even that of the temple: it is a little thing for men to unite in the forms of a religious service but it is much for them to unite, like true brethren, in the arts and offices of their daily lives.1
