For architecture, among all the arts, is the one that most boldly tries to reproduce in its rhythm the order of the universe, which the ancients call… - Umberto Eco

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For architecture, among all the arts, is the one that most boldly tries to reproduce in its rhythm the order of the universe, which the ancients called “kosmos,” that is to say ornate, since it is like a great animal on whom there shine the perfection and the proportion of all its members. And praised be our Creator who, as the Scriptures say, has decreed all things in number, weight, and measure.