Beauty and truth lie in structural logic

At the end of the 18th century, many thinkers of the period began to question the true necessity of the classical language, so wide-spread in all the belle arts. Marc-Antoine Laugier made a clear connection between the beauty and honesty of the logical structure of a building and the classical orders, these having evolved from the primitive hut. Laugier believed that every building ought to be composed from basic structural elements: posts, beams and a roof. This explanation was rather historical, but understanding the roots of what it meant to build a house led to new ideas further explored by thinkers of the time.

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