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 86
Fig. 41. The fundamental defect is the lackof similarity between the two masses,the mansard roof and the gable. PRIMARY MASSES 69 tively venial, sins, the great crime that it commits is thisequal union of totally different individual parts. Frequently, again, the same mistake is seen in the… … Fig. 42.Ill effect caused by the dissimilarity of the two towers. In order to obtain variety one of these is sometimes madeentirely different from the other, with a peculiarly unfortu-nate result, as in Fig. 42. Put it down as axiomatic that, wherever contrast maybe permissible, it is not so in any…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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