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 109
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… … Fig. 64. House of II. W. Poor, Esq., Tuxedo, New York. The three gabled roofs are of the extreme limit of size for secondary masses. classifying masses as primary or secondary, and indeed itwould be so, were it not that it is just this question of whereto place the limit that so often is to be…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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