Q6

[tzyc]

I guess the reason is from line 58 till the end, but not sure that means "tension"...??

Thank you

[tommywallach]

Hey Strawberry,

Actually, this question is answered fairly directly in the lines before the quote (47-53):

"The apparent inconsistency of a confessed Classicist advising against the mechanical imitation of historical models and arguing for new forms appropriate to the modern age created exactly the tension that made Wagner's writings and buildings so interesting."

There's the tension! He makes a church circular by citing a bunch of technological mumbo-jumbo, but he's also hearkening back to a historical model. How tense!

-t