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 130
fect of con-tinuity than a single part orthree parts, and is to be pre-ferred if more than three cannotbe compassed. Vertical details are oftenused to accentuate the outlinesof masses whether primary orsecondary, as the buttresses atthe angles of a Gothic tower,which are not required… … Fig. 79. Disposition of details to suggesta composition of two secondary ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION of quoins are often used at the angles of a building or of itsprincipal divisions. Sometimes a compound subdivision is made by meansof such details, as in Fig. i i. in which each story is…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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