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 227
s a composition that is activelypleasing to almost everybody, consisting of a horizontalsingle primary mass, with two secondary masses in theupper story and one in the lower. The intention was togive it as marked a horizontal character as possible. Themost serious deficiency, felt to be so at the… … carpenters have an invincible prejudice against such triflingwith the regular mitre line and the unevenness of the shingle courses thatresults. Now, if it shouldbe desired to keepthe same motive in abuilding of more in-dividual, vertical di-mensions, a generalextension verticallymust take place.…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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