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 108
145. Contrary to the rulein primary mass-ing, however,this is not al-ways the case, asthree secondarymasses of equalsize may be free-ly used. Examples ofthree dormers,three bays, andso on, of equalsize are frequent;an example isgiven in Fig. 135,and in Fig. 64 amore notablecase is shown.In this the… … Fig. 63.Dormitory, Princeton. The turrets constitute two asymmetrical secondarymasses. ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION through, appearing as a very much fore-shortened gable atthe right of the right-hand bay. It would make a morecoherent design if the ridges of the gables were somewhatLower with…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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