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ARCHITECTURE, PURE CREATION OF THE MIND
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for mixing different things. It is quite true that the architect should have construction as least as much at his fingers' ends as a thinker his grammar. And construction being a much
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THE PARTHENON
All this plastic machinery is realized in marble with the rigour that we have learned to apply in the machine. The impression is of naked polished steel.
more difficult and complex science than grammar, an architect's efforts are concentrated on it for a large part of his career; but he should not vegetate there.
The plan of the house, its cubic mass and its surfaces have been dictated partly by the utilitarian demands of the problem,
