The things which are seen; a revaluation of the visual arts
A 1921 London essay on architecture and aesthetics by the British architect-critic A. Trystan Edwards, written for architects and general readers to argue how buildings should be looked at and judged. The plates are coarse black-line diagrams of building elevations — window grids, porticoed fronts, pagoda roofs, blank walls with dashed axis lines — reducible to flat silhouettes, grid patterns and comparative before-and-after pairs for diagrammatic or editorial layouts.
