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In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

Christopher Wren

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

Christopher Wren

Architecture has its political use; public buildings being the ornament of a country; it establishes a nation, draws people and commerce; makes the people love their native country…Architecture aims at eternity.

Christopher Wren

Si monumentum requiris circumspice [If you would see the man's monument, look around].

Christopher Wren

Position is necessary for perfecting beauty. There are only two beautiful positions of strait lines, perpendicular and horizontal; this is from nature, and consequently necessity, no other than upright being firm.

Christopher Wren

Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty. Uniformities are best tempered, as rhymes in poetry, alternately, or sometimes with more variety, as in stanzas.

Christopher Wren

Views contrary to beauty are deformity, or a defect of uniformity: and plainness, which is the excess of uniformity: variety makes the mean.

Christopher Wren

Christopher Wren

Christopher Wren

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Born: October 20, 1632

Died: February 25, 1723 (aged 90)

Bio: Sir Christopher Michael Wren is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history. He was accorded responsibility for rebuilding 52 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St.

Known for:

St Paul's Cathedral
Monument to the Great Fire of London
Westminster Abbey
Old Royal Naval College
Royal Observatory, Greenwich

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