A great building is the greatest conceivable work of art because it presents difficulties annulled, resources combined, labor, courage, and patience. A great building does indeed represent such accomplishments, but these do not make it the greatest conceivable work of art, only the most unlikely. When building becomes art, it does so only by standing on the shoulders of engineering, physics, mechanics, logistics, economics, and craft. Henry James in Architecture as Art, 1984
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