The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture
Seven essays by American architect Claude Bragdon linking theosophy to architectural proportion, issued by Alfred A. Knopf in New York in 1922 for readers of design theory and occult philosophy. Line diagrams overlay circles, squares and diagonals on Renaissance facades, arcades and vaulted bays, giving designers geometric construction grids, clean black-and-white elevations and analytic overlays for layout work.
