The nature of Gothic : a chapter of The stones of Venice (1892)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Morris, William, 1834-1896, Kelmscott Press · Hammersmith : Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press ; London and Orpington : Published by George Allen · leaf 110
n order to en^able them to bear pressure from without. Thusconsidering it, there are but three ways in whichan interval between piers can be bridged, the threeways represented by a, b,andc,Fig:XI.,onpage98,a, the lintel; b, the roundarch; c, the gable. All thearchitects in the world willnever… … The Natureof Gothic ing,notaddmgtothcgcne^ric forms.CNowtherearcthree good architectures inthe world, and there nevercan be more, correspond/*ent to each of these threesimple ways of covering ina space, which is the origin-nal function of all architecttures. And those three ar^chitectures are pure…
Architecture, Gothic
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