Status Updates From The Seven Lamps of Architec...

… the people who destroy anything causelessly are a mob, and Architecture is always destroyed causelessly.

the garland of everlasting in Père la Chaise are (more) cheerful ornaments. … money will not buy life.

rethink about kitschiness of post-modern buildings, please… what they called kitsch—even some of them are proud of it—is just a mere ‘pseudo’ harmonious piece of ecclesiastical architecture.

alright! so—while a sculpture is the representation of an idea, architecture itself is a real thing. And, reality ought to have reality in all its attributes: its colour should be as fixed as its from.
Ruskin couldn’t consider architecture as in any wise perfect without colour.

alright—i agree, that … the truest materials are those which can be found above the ground; clay, wood and stone. I’d like to call them, ‘everyone’s materials.’

‘Know what you have to do, …failure is less frequently attributable to either insufficiency
of means or impatience of labor, than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.’