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John Ruskin — The Seven Lamps of Architecture

1849 · Book · Public Domain

Ruskin’s seven guiding principles — sacrifice, truth, power, beauty, life, memory, and obedience — for a moral architecture. It championed the Gothic revival and insisted that buildings express the honesty and labour of the hands that made them.

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