William Richard Lethaby > Quotes

“Portals must have guardians.”
― William Richard Lethaby, Architecture Mysticism and Myth

“Behind every style of architecture there is an earlier style, in which the germ of every form is to be found”
― William Richard Lethaby, Architecture Mysticism and Myth

“This four squareness was a talismanic assurance of permanence and stability. The thought that, as the heavens were stable upon the earth, so any building four square with them would be immovable, seems, as we have seen, a natural analogy.”
― William Richard Lethaby, Architecture Mysticism and Myth

“Of all forms, the cube and the hemisphere are the most sacred…”
― William Richard Lethaby, Architecture Mysticism and Myth