Beauty: It should be aesthetically pleasing. According to Vitruvius, the architect should strive to satisfy each of these three attributes as best as possible. Leon Battista Alberti, who elaborated on Vitruvius' ideas in his treatise De Re Aedificazioneria, saw beauty primarily as a question of proportions, although ornament also played a role. For Alberti the rules of proportions were those that governed the idealized human figure, the golden ratio. The most important aspect of beauty was, therefore, an intrinsic part of an object, rather than something superficially applied, and was based on universal and recognizable principles. truth. The notion of style in the arts did not develop until the 16th century, with the writings of Vasari:[10] by the 18th century his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects had been translated into Italian, French, Spanish, and English .London's Houses of Parliament, seen from across the river, is a large Victorian Gothic building with two large towers and many pinnaclesThe Houses of Parliament, Westminster, designed by Charles Barry, with interiors and details by AWN.