Found 13,057 results for "Public architecture"
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
by John Ruskin
I. ARCHITECTURE is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, for whatsoever uses, that the sight ...
The Stones of Venice
by John Ruskin
I. SINCE the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set ...
The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
IN A BROAD VALLEY, at the foot of a sloping hillside, beside a clear bubbling stream, Tom was building a house.
Twelve years a slave
by Solomon Northup
Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having a...
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
Vers une architecture
by Le Corbusier, Hans Hildebrandt
A QUESTION of morality; lack of truth is intolerable, we perish in untruth.
Leonardo
by Leonardo da Vinci, Kunster
If anyone fits the description 'Renaissance man' it is Leonardo da Vinci.
Le Corbusier
by Le Corbusier
"Mit 17 Jahren hatte ich das Gluck, einen Bauherrn kennen zu lernen, der mir ohne Vorurteile sein Bauvorhaben anvertraut...
Coriolanus
by William Shakespeare
This is one of Shakespeare's bleakest comments on human history.
