"...we must go to the poets to see what they all meant by it; but the sum is an emotion — clear and strong as love and…"

"Granted a Church, Saint Thomas's Church was the most expressive that man has made, and the great gothic Cathedrals we…"

"Gaudí was drawn not just to the aesthetics of the catenary but also to what it represented mathematically. His use of…"

"Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me." Polo answers: "Without stones there is…"

"Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be …"

"Within a shed erected on the construction site of the church of the Sagrada family... Gaudí... made an upside-down mo…"

"The exact shape of funicular (sometimes called linear or theoretical) arch[es] that carry all applied loads by axial …"

"Corol. 6.—In a vertical plane, but in an inverted situation, the chain will preserve its figure without falling, and …"

"From all ages architects have made use of arches in public buildings, as well for strength as beauty. Yet what was th…"

"Like all great churches, that are not mere store-houses of theology, Chartres expressed, besides whatever else it mea…"