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 111
lyin the case of three, but of one or two secondary masses;indeed, the chief part of the art of composition lies in thisdefinite selection and unfaltering carrying out of the chosenmotive. We now come to a new and totally different class offacts, upon which we have hitherto not touched, except… … unless the central mass dominates, becomes practicable andpleasing when they are secondary, even though the centraldiffers not at all from the others; we now note that thegrouping of four or more masses, which is never used in thei if primary masses, is frequently used and always pleas-ing in the…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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