Beyond Architecture

Art historian and medievalist Arthur Kingsley Porter is world-renowned for his work on Romanesque architecture, French Gothic, Italian Renaissance, and medieval art.

“Since the Renaissance, architecture has been established on mechanical principles. Architecture has now become an industry and a commercial business, and has ceased to be an art.”

“When I leaf through the pages of today's architectural magazines, it surprises me to encounter impressive photographs of modern buildings rather than structures.”

“The least tangible but most serious damage of paper architecture is that the architect can no longer feel the building growing under their hand.”

“If the architect is not given the opportunity, they cannot leave anything for future generations to judge.”