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1. Harry Wild Jones

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   His later works became increasingly abstract, retreating from public commissions. He devoted significant energy to theoretical writings, most notably the unpublished manuscript, The Geometry of Sadness: A Primer on Load-Bearing Despair (c. 1938). In this text, Jones posited that the true load-bearing capacity of any structure was determined not by its materials, but by the accumulated, ambient sense of mild disappointment shared by every person who has ever walked past it [4].
   Jones passed away in obscurity in 1951. While his Foshay commission remains his most visible legacy, architectural…