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 58
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… … Fig- 15- Harmonious effect of similar curvesin plan as well as in elevation. and it is for this reason that the interior of most of the greatdomed buildings is more harmonious than the exterior, as theinterior is a complete compo-sition of semicircular archesin the aisles, and in the vaultsof the…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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