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 150
of slices,piled one on top of the other. In Fig. 91 are shown several of such buildings. At a isthe Campanile of St. Marks, with vertical treatment of themiddle portion, for comparison with the opposite method,which is shown in the three other examples. At b is theCampanile at Lucca, in which the… … 133 ,., ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION while .it d is a modern office building. The fundamentalidentity of motive in b, c, and d is easily seen; each con-sisting of a top part and bottom part, with the larger middlepart cut up into a series of uniform slices. Now the conditions which apply to this…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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