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IN 1700 JOHN LOCKE WROTE that association was a wrong Connexion in our Minds of Ideas in themselves, loose and independent of one another. Such a connection, he said, is of so great force to set us awry in our Actions, as well Moral as Natural, Passions, Reasonings, and Notions themselves... .I1 But during the first half of the eighteenth century British architects, estheticians, and philosophers overcame the distrust with which Locke viewed association. The process was slow and uncertain, for it introduced a new manner of architectural composition that required the observer's imagination to generate associations with specific forms and styles used in the design. The success of such designs generally unencumbered by the confusion or errors that Locke had predictedculminated in widespread acceptance of association as a fundamental method of architectural expression by the last third of the
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