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 191
o longer prevails, both masses and link being placed similarly erect.The same rule prevails inthe case of the single mass,with either one or two appen-dages, which may be eithersimilar to the mass or in con-trast with it. Thus in a country-house design, it is practicable to make the appendages like… … Fig. 123. The roofs of the mass and appen-are similar in form, but con-1 in position. CONTRAST 175 lend themselves far better to purposes of composition whenplaced as appendages than when extended along the wholefront. Sometimes, as in Fig. 123, the mass and appendagesmay both have roofs alike in…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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