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 57
ment must be nearly on the same scale in both—but a generalreflection in its forms of the larger. The doctrine that the roofs of a building must have thesame pitch remains a dry and barren formula, to be thrown Fig. 13. Lack of unity caused by dissimilarity at a.Unity obtained by similarity at b.… … Fig. 14.All Souls Church, New York. lilarity of parts is obtained by the use of the circle and semicirclethroughout. sometimes when they serve different purposes, areunited in a harmony of the whole by a general resemblancein sh A hemispherical dome, for instance, is felt to be ap-propriate in…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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