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 173
2 1 : 2 1 : 3 2 : 3 2 = 3 2 : 3 3 : 4 Corresponding relations are found in the dimensions ofthe various parts of the Greek temples. The conspicuousfact in the proportions of a Doric temple is the continualrecurrence of horizontal rectangles of differing sizes, but ofclosely related dimensions (Fig.… … low these, again, is the row of llat faces of the abaci, alsoelongated horizontal rectangles. All of these are closely re-lated among them-selves, and also tothe vertical rectan-gles of the columns.Taking the dia-meter at the base ofthe column, the re-lation of width toheight is substan-tially the…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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