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 235
this solution proves unavail-able, on account of the lost spacein the attic of the appendage, orf( ir 1 itlier reasons, we must rejectthe whole scheme for a verticalcomposition, and work up the al-ternative horizontal arrangement.The tower idea must be elimi-nated and the roof of the atticcarried… … Fig- i53-Modification of Fig. 146in an opposite direction, tosecure a single, continuous,primary mass, with a singlesecondary mass, and an appen-dage. COMPARISON AXD CRITICISM 219 visible from the street, and it is a false system of composi-tion that demands the exhibition on the exterior of…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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