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 87
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… … But, when we pass from the quale to the quantum; fromthe question of what kind shall these two masses be to the question of how large shallthey be, we find an en-tirely different reply. It is true that com-positions of equal twinmasses preponderate, asfar as the number of ex-amples that can be…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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