Citations:magpie architecture

English citations of magpie architecture

• 1901, Architecture, vol. 3–4, page 319 [1]:

  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.

• Robert Hugh Benson (1910) By what Authority?, page 455: “First, however, they went to Speke Hall, the home of Mr. Norreys, on the banks of the Mersey, a beautiful house of magpie architecture, and furnished with a remarkable underground passage to the shore of the Mersey [...]”

• Kirkland, M. (2001) His Lordship's Swan, →ISBN, page 74: “At least three centuries old, the black-and-white half-timbered building was magpie architecture at its most exuberant, rambling and unapologetically homely.”