With John Ruskin’s lamp we can see it as a fraud and an ugly thing. A Greek Revival house made of wood will pretend to have a great stone entablature, but it does not. They pretend to be something they are not. There are many buildings that have a certain pretension. Ruskin presents seven lamps that shed light upon architecture. Various schools of architecture have their own way of looking at things and they are usually quite willing to anathematize anyone who strays from their orthodoxy. The last point touches upon an interesting point within architecture. John Ruskin asserted that England should have one school of architecture, a type of Gothic that was peculiarly English. Obedience - “The architecture of a nation is great only when it is as universal and as established as it language”.
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