Eugène Viollet-le-Duc Quote

Our modern architects are like parvenus who have come all at once into possession of a large fortune and do not know how to adjust their expenditure with that discretion which belongs only to accustomed opulence.


Translated by B. Bucknal, Lectures On Architecture (Volume 2)


Our modern architects are like parvenus who have come all at once into possession of a large fortune and do not know how to adjust their expenditure...

Our modern architects are like parvenus who have come all at once into possession of a large fortune and do not know how to adjust their expenditure...

Our modern architects are like parvenus who have come all at once into possession of a large fortune and do not know how to adjust their expenditure...

Our modern architects are like parvenus who have come all at once into possession of a large fortune and do not know how to adjust their expenditure...