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 81
red addition of parts,to relieve it, or to give variety. The simplicityand dignity that inhere in singleness of mass we mayoften endeavor in vain to find in other more complexmotives. When a building is of small size, like many countrydwelling houses, the absolute plainness of the four wallsand… … Fig- 35a-Pylons of Temple at Philae. such a way as to destroy this singleness of mass, but rather to adorn it with subordinate secondary or tertiary parts, as will be hereafter shown.But in the caseof large city frontsof stores or ware-houses, where flat-ness is forced uponus by the necessityof…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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