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 185
ent and notfixed, and men were at libertyto do what seemed to themmost beautiful, without regardto authority or precedent. Minor variations undoubt-edly occur and are essential toits charm, but the main skeletonof dimensions in its laying outwas clearly a triple division, of which the large first… … xuju nmu.aj^^ Another very curious instance of irregularity based uponregularity is in the facade of Notre Dame, of Paris, shownin outline in Fig. ei8. No relation is discernible, at firstglance, in the heights of the rows of arcades that adorn it;upon measuring them we find the peculiar i, 2, 3,…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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