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 222
/, just as we didin the case of the doublegroup, with a result onlypartly satisfactory, as a curious effect at first follows the experiment. The additionof the turret, instead of giving apparent additional size anddignity to the central mass, actually causes it to appearrelatively smaller, and… … Fig. 144-Porte des Cordeliers, Loches. The two turrets are unmistakablysecondary masses. ARCHITECTURAL C< IMPOSITION stage at / identical with that obtained from the double gr< >up. The combinations shown in these examples compriseall the fundamental arrangements of masses that are…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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