CLC - Fellow Craft - 05.22.17

A RCHITECTURE Architecture provides another pathway to increase our appreciation of beauty and harmony, as Henry Wilson Coil, a California Mason and scholar, wrote in Coil’s Masonic Encyclopedia: Architecture is one of the decorative arts, that is, a fine art applied to the beautification of that which is primarily utilitarian. . . . The utility and strength of a building depend upon engineering and construction; its beauty and attractiveness are created by architecture. The three chief elements of architecture are: first, size or vastness which gives a sense of majesty and power; secondly, harmony, proportion and symmetry, the absence of which is glaring and unpleasant, though the reason is difficult to assign; and thirdly, ornament and color, which lend variety to the many surfaces.

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