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 146
Fig. 89.Academy of Fixe Arts, Vienna. Horizontal division into four parts, whichwould be improved by merging the second storyinto the first more completely. HORIZONTAL DIVISION 129 … It is plain, too, that the architect has held this opinion,for he has done much to merge the second story in thefirst by similarity of wall treatment and by diminishing themoulding between these stories to a string, while elsewherethere are full cor-nices. Had this beencarried still further,and…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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