In Praise of Shadows A Book by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki & Thomas J. Harper www.goodreads.com Things that shine and glitterA naked bulbThe Japanese toiletEmpty dreamsMost important of all are the pauses+9 More 125 Best Architecture BooksDaylight should not tyrannize architectureDeep shadows and darkness are essentialLights and lampsThe gentle light of shoji screens zendarknesslightmaterialmaking
The usages of life A Fragment by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc victorianweb.org During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries architects not only paid attention to internal arrangements, but subordinated the designs for the exterior to them. The usages of life dictated the arrangement and the arrangement suggested the form of the building. This was the dominant principle in times of Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The Timeless Way of BuildingForm follows function architecturefunction