In the Cause of Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright

"The character of the wall-surface will be determined also by the kind of stone, by the kind of mason, the kind of architect."

I like this paragraph, "The Goths made most of stone. But stone became for the Gothic imagination a mere negative material which they employed supremely well in a structural sense."

Negative material?

I found it interesting that the second half of the readying Wright refers to mankind as "he", "him", and "his".