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 242
a better connection between itand the towers than is affordedby the one-story high, horizontalline of the balcony of the narthex,which then will become that ofthe front itself. This connection may be im-proved, it is true, by continuingthe small arcade across the frontsof the towers, and putting… … Fig. 158. Modifications of Fig. 157, to ob-tain a more coherent result. ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION and the gable, open to precisely the same criticism asbef< iv. [f to overcome this state of affairs we determine toconstruct a horizontal line across the gable, as is done inNotre Dame at Paris, as…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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