Architecture, the practice of building design and its resulting products; customary usage refers only to those designs and structures that are culturally significant. Architecture is to building as literature is to the printed word. Vitruvius, a 1st-century BC Roman, wrote encyclopedically about architecture, and the English poet Sir Henry Wotton was quoting him in his charmingly phrased dictum: "Well building hath three conditions: Commoditie, Firmenes, and Delight." More prosaically, one would say today that architecture …showed first 75 words of 9983 total…

…showed last 75 words of 9983 total…and eclectic styles. Two contrasting but equally brilliantly conceived examples are Charles Garnier's sumptuous Paris Opéra (1861-75) and Henry Hobson Richardson's grandiose Trinity Church (1872-77) in Boston. Modern Architecture At the turn of the century, designers appeared who refused to work in borrowed styles. Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona, Spain, was the most original; his sinuous Casa Milá (1905-7) and the unfinished Iglesia di Sagrada Familia (Church of the Holy Family, 1883-1926) exhibit a s