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The humble cottages of the English lanes, the towered villages of the Italian hills, and the farmsteads of Sweden, are all beautiful; each in its own place, under its own sky, set in its own landscape. And the same is true of even the loftiest architecture, such as the Pyramids and the Parthenon are of necessity parts of the landscape; and they are beautiful just as the works of pure nature are beautiful, according as they express their origin, their growth, and their purpose, and as they help or harm the expression of the particular landscape of which they are a part. The beauty of such
scenes — for each remembrance is the remembrance of a
scene, and not of a building only — lies in their unity and
harmony of expression. If we want it, we work through that process which is called designing. Our aim must be to make all that we do contribute to the effect of the whole; and the whole which we aim to produce is always more than the building alone. The site, the scene, the "landscape," and the building together must be studied as one composition.