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Architecture, the practice of building design and its resulting products; customary usage refers only to those designs and structures that are culturally significant. Architecture is to building as literature is to the printed word. Vitruvius, a 1st-century BC Roman, wrote encyclopedically about architecture, and the English poet Sir Henry Wotton was quoting him in his charmingly phrased dictum: "Well building hath three conditions: Commoditie, Firmenes, and Delight." More prosaically, one would say today that architecture …

…and eclectic styles. Two contrasting but equally brilliantly conceived examples are Charles Garnier's sumptuous Paris Opéra (1861-75) and Henry Hobson Richardson's grandiose Trinity Church (1872-77) in Boston. Modern Architecture At the turn of the century, designers appeared who refused to work in borrowed styles. Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona, Spain, was the most original; his sinuous Casa Milá (1905-7) and the unfinished Iglesia di Sagrada Familia (Church of the Holy Family, 1883-1926) exhibit a s