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 167
to the width of theportico is equal to the same ratio in the whole front, pro- Fig. 106. Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. The tower, if continued to theground, would seem disproportion-ately tall and narrow. ARCHITECTURAL COMPOST; [ON during a particularly happy effect, which is felt before thecause of… … Fig. 107. Public School, New York. The portico is proportionate to the whole front. objects, quite at variance with the horizontal motive thathad been adopted as the keynote. They were therefore shortened until the width was some-what greater than the height, to correspond with the…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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