New Curious Architecture

Building is a Divine Work.

When GOD encircles the World with a vaulted arch,
It is a work of art, a work of reason.
For all things are joined to Him in a miraculous bond:
The valley to the mountain, the land near to its own waters.
And what is most important, these things stand without any labor;
Instead, no sooner said than done: when He commands it to be, He makes it.
And yet He makes all things perfect and most full;
In a word: He makes the unspeakable, the wondrous, the stupendous.
Yet it was not enough for Him to have made these things;
He requires a student capable of His own art.
He wills that His own Image referring to Mankind, created in the image of God should possess a part of Divinity;
What He does, He makes it so that man can do the same.
Hence, he who was of Earth, struck by celestial fire,
As if a GOD on Earth, prepares to create divine things:
Emulating virtue, the created mind often builds
The various works of the divine art of the Creator.
Just as GOD laid the foundations of the world from without,
Skillfully decorated with its own finery:
So man labors to build a world within the world,
So that you might believe him to be a partner in the labor.
He builds high, he builds deep, by piling up and excavating;
His emulating right hand prepares mountains and valleys.
The ingenious hand forces the dry and the wet original: "madidum," referring to water or moisture,
So that they are ready to follow his commands of their own accord.
Yet this distinction remains: all things consist
Of much labor, which mortals perform.
Nothing stands forth suddenly: those things which stand there by command alone,
Man does not imitate here by command alone.
Venerable Art rejoices in its own right, and forces all things
Under its own laws; it makes things that can scarcely be done:
Yet, it is necessary to spend many hours on these;
To touch the goal, it is always necessary to run.
No citadel ever stood to be inhabited by Princes
Where the builder's hand was stingy with labor
Or impatient of delay: Art cannot become very famous
By being sluggish: Fame thrives through labor.
Thus, the flow of the wave is accustomed to spread through valleys,
And does not know how to go upon upward paths;
Yet, pushed by force, it will climb and pass through the sky,
Ready to be carried to the stars at the command of Art;
Yet with the sweat of the one forcing it: for a thing
Desires to be prepared by weight, measure, and number. A reference to the Wisdom of Solomon 11:20: "thou hast ordered all things in measure and number and weight."
An untiring hand must propel upward
That which was born otherwise to follow lower things.
Therefore, how all these things are made by the command of art,
Believe me, anyone may learn from this book.
For it contains whatever Victorious Europe, through its various cities,
Whatever Rome the Head Rome was historically referred to as "Caput Mundi" or Head of the World has built.