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 209
r two wider than the cor-responding room, thus bringing the entrance out of centre,and place the central window above it still a few inchesmore off centre. These divergences will be distinguish-able only to a critical professional observer, and will oftenbe overlooked even by him, while they will… … Fig- 133-Primary mass with one appendage. window above are both slightly off centre, yet no one noticesthe irregularity, and the building is generally liked. But we are speak-ing now of an en-tirely different sortof asymmetry—ofthe conspicuous andunavoidable kind,in which one partdoes not pretend…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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