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 45
rising gradu-ally one above the other,about one highest centralbuilding, like those on thefortified rock of Mont SaintMichel (Fig. 3), are unitedby this disposition into asingle mind-picture. Evenwhere the situation is not sostriking, any ordinary groupof heterogeneous parts canbe pulled together… … Fig- 3-Mont Saint Michel. Effect of pyramidal arrangement ingiving unity. INDIVIDUALITY 20 possible to give individuality to a square-headed mass byproper treatment; only we must remember that the squareoutline has not the character of individuality in itself as thepointed outline has, butrequires…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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