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 214
SYMMETRICAL COMPOSITION 197 instead of being joined to it by making the horizontal linecontinuous. The farther gable, on the other hand, is itself a complexgroup of two unequal masses, a smaller gable being attachedand bound to it by partly lapping over upon it, and by in-sistence upon the… … Fig. 138.Two primary masses, with two asymmetrical appendages. considerably below the ridge of the link. Notice, too, theway in which the dormers are placed upon this nearer ap-pendage, a large and a small, assimilating themselves to theunequal gables of which the farther primary mass is com-posed.…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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