Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy..

Trees which grow in places facing the course of the sun are not of porous fiber but are solid, being drained by the dryness... The trees in sunny nei….

The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class..

Remembering that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows ….

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each oth….

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music..

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring rep….

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings..

A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away..

For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods..

A liberal education forms a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the ….

For not all things are practicable on identical principles.

Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before..

The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect..

The construction of temples of the Ionic order to Juno, Diana, Father Bacchus, and the other gods of that kind, will be in keeping with the middle po….

Cold winds are disagreeable, hot winds enervating, moist winds unhealthy..

Noting all these things with the great delight which learning gives, we cannot but be stirred by these discoveries when we reflect upon the influence….

All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament..

Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect the truth….

At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia, are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the in….

Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and, a….