The Seven Lamps of Architecture

Name: The Seven Lamps of Architecture
ISBN: 9781014713889

Beauty, life, memory, obedience, power, sacrifice, and truth – these are the seven lamps of architecture. In this illustrated edition, Ruskin explains that the value of architecture hinges on both “the image it bears of the natural creation” and “the impression it receives from human power.”First published in 1880, The Seven Lamps of Architecture remains a primary reference on design at the turn of the nineteenth century while also establishing in print key elements of architecture that continue to be relevant today.

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cagefaceJul 2010
For an eerily prophetic look at this from 1849 read John Ruskin's The Seven Lamps of Architecture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Lamps_of_Architecture
If you're currently making a living doing creative, intellectual work (like programming), count yourself lucky to be among the few remaining craftsmen in the world.
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cafardFeb 2017
It is curious that you should post this, for Mark Twain in Innocents Abroad shows signs of reacting against Ruskin's preference for the pre-Raphaelites. And I suspect Lewis Carroll of taking Ruskin at a bit less than the standard valuation, given the lines from "Hiawatha's Photographing":
Next the Son, the Stunning-Cantab: He suggested curves of beauty, Curves pervading all his figure, Which the eye might follow onward, Till they centered in the breast-pin, Centered in the golden breast-pin. He had learnt it all from Ruskin (Author of 'The Stones of Venice,' 'Seven Lamps of Architecture,' 'Modern Painters,' and some others); And perhaps he had not fully Understood his author's meaning; But, whatever was the reason All was fruitless, as the picture Ended in an utter failure.
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