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 215
one of many similar cases, in buildings of ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION widely varying types, we arc justified in making a generalstatement, and inventing a suitable nomenclature ofclassificatii >n. This constitutes the reduction of architecture to ascience, for all science is but the… … Fig- 139- House at Detroit, Mich. Two unequal primary masses. It might be justly said, indeed, that this is the funda-mental type of such compositions, as it is the only groupof unequal primary masses which has been generally used. Wo have .already given illustrations of compositions oftwo unequal…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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