The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Publisher: Project Gutenberg | ISBN: 048626145X | edition 2011 | EPUB + MOBI | 14.3 MB
Publisher: Project Gutenberg | ISBN: 048626145X | edition 2011 | EPUB + MOBI | 14.3 MB
Book-length essay on architecture by John Ruskin, published in 1849. According to Ruskin, the leading principles of architecture are the 'lamps' of Sacrifice, Truth, Power, Beauty, Life, Memory, and Obedience. The noblest style of architecture was Gothic, but in time medieval architecture had lost the power to resist innovation.