Real Finishes We lost such a beautiful city.

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Real Finishes I have zero expertise and have never seen this type of thing, but it seems more balanced if it was rotated a bit like this

You simply cannot have Gothic architecture without Good materials and loving hands…

If you're an admirer of the geometry of gothic brick masonry, give Real Finishes a follow for his brilliant studies. Some examples from beautiful Bruges:

There is no endurable urbanism without good architecture and there is no great architecture without excellence in craft. All of the so-called professionals of urbanism and architecture continue to view everything backwards.

The human hand is the most redemptive force of nature.

Making Architecture

'What the mind conceives, the eyes see, we come to truly understand when the hands make'

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Art and culture were not conceived in the womb of a factory. No industrial seance will spirit them back. If they ever take root again it will be in simple places, by the hands of human beings.

A great architecture is made so by the hands that have touched it…being the very embodiment of Love it will endure or perish as She does.

Real Finishes I've long admired this little balcony in Bruges, but never thought about its complex geometries.

“The Gothic Cathedral sat as the fulcrum between heaven and earth, faith and reason…between what we knew to be good and believed to be true.”

A sunny spring morning in Charleston is always a good time for a Classical shade and shadow study.

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Admiring some of the plaster craftsmanship here at the North Carolina State Capitol. Notice how the fillets of the Tower of the Winds Corinthian columns align perfectly with both sides of the rail of the parapet overlooking the chamber. Amazing!

Real Finishes I still have a long way to go…

Nice sketches!

More Classical Shade and Shadow Study material

Passed by some more monumental works, this time of the Doric and Ionic orders, graced by the morning sun in historic Charleston.

Real Finishes Palladio?

As regards the New Classicists…

They’ve never been an ally of the traditional craftsman. In fact, they lead the chorus in decrying him as an onerous expense, content to smear a few styrofoam shapes on the same old glass, steel, and concrete box.

They’re Modernists in drag.

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