At The Age Of 80, I'm Becoming

After About The First Millennium, Italy Was The Cradle Of Romanesque Architecture, Which Spread Throughout Europe, Much Of It Extending The Structural Daring With Minimal Visual Elaboration.

The Romans Were Not Inventors Of The Supporting Arch, But Its Extended Use In Vaults And Intersecting Barrel Shapes And Domes Is Theirs.

As Much As The Needs Of Fact, The Needs Of The Spirit And The Senses, Must Be Satisfied. Architecture Is As Much A Part Of The Realm Of Art As It Is Of Technology; The Fusion Of Thinking And Feeling.

If There Is One Country And Its People That Have Contributed Most To Western Civilisation's Man-made World Continuously For The Last 2000 Years, It Must Surely Be Italy.

Borne Out Of This, Starting Around The 17th Century Was The Baroque Era. It Is My View That It Is One Of The Architectural Peak Periods In Western Civilisation.