Ruskin, John

Ruskin, John. 1862. Unto this Last Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy. London Smith, Elder. 

Curl, J. S. (2006). Ruskin, John. In A dictionary of architecture and landscape architecture. New York Oxford University Press. 

In purchasing equipment consider what John Ruskin (1819-1900) stated that it is unwise to pay too much, but it is unwise to pay too little unless you know that the machine is capable of meeting the requirements you set. 

Bulwer-Lytton directly influenced John Ruskin at Oxford University and established the lineage that leads — through such names as Milner and Rhodes — to the present-day Royal Institute of International Affairs. Ruskin s students included Milner, Rhodes, Albert Grey, and the future director of research for the RIIA, Arnold Toynbee. 

The family history of the Keswicks intersects the story of the Russells, Villiers, and Braces through their most senior political operatives, notably Lord Milner. Milner, Cecil Rhodes s protege and one of racist John Ruskin s early trainees, bridged the gap between the establishment of the Rhodes Trust and the creation of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1920. Milner became a director of Rio Tinto Zinc in 1921, and served as chairman from 1922 until his death in 1925. 

It has often been said that our actions speak louder than our words. As John Ruskin once stated, What we think, or what we know, or what we believe, is in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do. ... 

Concluding our discussion of crystal symmetries, let us return now to those exquisite shapes that we think of when the word crystal is mentioned. The words of the 19th century English writer John Ruskin [157] and drawings of C. Bunn [158] (Figure 9-66) are cited here. 

John Ruskin s words are quoted here after L. V. Azaroff, Introduction to Solids. McGraw-Hill, 1960. 

John Ruskin, 1S19-1900, English art critic and historian... 

According to John Ruskin Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort, and such an effort should be well organized. 

Think also of the ethical implications of participating in a process that, from the outset, is not designed to serve the long-term best interest of those we serve and their stakeholders. Besides the three costs we are likely to incur, consider the costs that will probably be incurred by those we serve, as explained by the English philosopher John Ruskin ... 

Truth, Beauty, and the Reflection of God John Ruskin s Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones of Venice as Palimpsests for Contemporary Architecture... 

Much of modern engineering is functional. If it works, then what more is there to do In this paper, additional foundational considerations besides function are suggested for the practice of architecture, including moral, ethical, philosophical, and religious principles. Using John Ruskin as a plumbline, the paper provides examples of modern architecture which embody these principles and suggests ways in which these principles can be incorporated into future architectural projects. 

Figure 4.3 The South Side of St. Mark s from the Loggia of the Ducal Palace, Venice, 4854, by John Ruskin—Public Domain...

Figure 4.4 Archivolt in St. Mark s, 1853, by John Ruskin-Public Domain...

John Matteson discusses this very question. Citing the building of the Crystal Palace (Figures 4.9 and 4.10), whose prefabricated eomponents heralded a revolution, which was occurring at the same time as the publieation of Ruskin s Stones of Venice, Matteson asserts that Ruskin s ideas were already destined for quaintness in the 1850s (Matteson, 2002, p. 300). He points out some of the difficulties of applying Ruskin s hrst principles to contemporary architecture ... 

In architecture, site and design are inseparably linked to produce a structure that focuses on the lamps of truth, power, beauty, life, and memory, as delineated by John Ruskin. These ideals have in some profound ways become the palimpsest for contemporary architects, such as Peter Eisenman and Daniel Libeskind, demonstrating that any site contains not only presences, but the memory of previous presences and the immanences of a possible presence (Eisenman, 2004, p. 207). In these structures built to commemorate the Holocaust and the tragedy of 9-11, history haunts the visitors the past informs the present that prepares the participants for the future. 

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