Architectural composition; an attempt to order and phrase ideas which hitherto have been only felt by the instinctive taste of designers
A 1908 New York textbook on architectural composition by John Beverley Robinson, issued by Van Nostrand for architects and design students learning proportion and massing. Numbered halftone plates show Italian palazzo fronts and Gothic cathedral facades, paired with sparse line elevations that reduce the same buildings to outline and window grid \u2014 useful for facade silhouettes, repeating fenestration patterns, and diagrammatic building profiles.
