Classical Architecture

Children of happier times might find, in the obsessive efforts of classicism to align, partition, measure, relate, and finish, a discipline of the mind. They might discover in these countless redefinitions of the game of interspacing and termination, superimposition and repetition, an imperative to generate a work free of contradiction.
Perhaps they will recognize in classicism a thinking that struggles for consistently and completeness. They might see in this imperative for order and rationality a quest in the domain of thinking – but also what Thomas Mann (1957) called “the highly cherished idea of a reflected humanity”.

Classical Architecture, The Poetics of Order, Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre