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Lamp Memory
- Critiques the homes that will last only one generation, as well as cookie-cutter suburbs around London, “as solitary as similar” that will “ruin national greatness” and are sign of rising “popular discontent.”
- Even the most independent beauty depends on memory
- Architecture is the fount of memory, more than history of painting
- Poetry does it to a limited extent
- But architects are “conquerors of the forgetfulness of men,” even if ruins and fragments
- National architecture needs to “render the architecture of the day historical” and preserve past architecture
- Memorial and monumental architecture is best, even in both private and public places
- Buildings must be build to last, to preserve their “sanctity,” for your house deserves your respect and affection because the “material things that they had loved and ruled over, and set the stamps of themselves upon” makes it so that living in old buildings “would make us holy”
- Architecture shouldn’t be about spectacle or “critical fancy,” but durable, complete, diligence and patience; to last until “local interests” have been altered “in the ordinary course of national revolutions”
- Changes will occur in life, so you need to preserve architecture as monument to the old: record where you came from, not where you go (it’s stability despite social climbing and historical change)
- Should reflect individualism
- To express character and occupation of each man and his history
- Buildings are a monument to the builder
- Public Buildings: USE GOTHIC
- Opportunities for decoration let you put in history of your country
- Buildings should express facts and tell stories and reflect values
- Stewardship
- Buildings are the “Great entail” of Earth
- Buildings need to have “futurity”
- Protect buildings b/c “they are not ours”
- Restoration is a lie and will mess things up
Created on November 9, 2008 08:14:41
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