Abstract
The text of this article is organized in two parts, the first on architecture as a discipline, and the second on the architect practicing it. The two parts mirror each other. References are made to the treatise De Architectura of Vitruvius in Ancient Rome, and to several important moments of the history and theory of twentieth-century art and architecture. The notion of venustas, beauty, appears all through the text, in dotted lines, suggesting that the disappearance of this old ideal might have left room for new expressions of beauty. Is this ideal differently understood and recreated today by the architect, or are we now confronted with its absence, as if we contemplated an empty frame left after the painting has been removed?
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