Architectural composition : an attempt to order and phrase ideas which hitherto have been only felt by the instinctive taste of designers (1908)
Robinson, John Beverley, 1853- · New York : Van Nostrand · leaf 103
ly disposed. If they are really aptly disposed, we may convert a plain box of a building into a perfectly satisfactory composition; but it will not do to stick on things here and there promiscuously: it mustbe done secundum artem.It will not do at all toput a piazza on thenorth and west sides soas… … Fig. 59- ■ I try musses placed upon a buildingregardless of rules. roofs of opposite curvature, for variety, and a miscellaneouscollection of windows of assorted shapes and sizes, for no1 articular reason but general deviltry, Fig. 59. On thecontrary, the secondary parts must be applied with…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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