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 240
osimple and inevitable when completed, that to the un-initiated it will be incredible how many weeks of work havebeen lavished upon them. En this d< sign, and it is but one example of many instances,for nothing appears more obvious than to advance a littlethe central enriched part of a building,… … Fig. 155- Modification of Fig. 154, re-ducing the central portion to adefinitely secondary mass. down, and made a distinctly secondary mass, in propersubordination to the primary. The gain in coheren*at once seen. It would be verydesirable also to lower its cor-nice as its proportions are notthose…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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