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 88
o Arundel Castle. Two primary masses of like kind butof unequal size. PRIMARY MASSES 71 that which prevails between twin masses, has a parallelin other architectural features. It is closely connected withthe repetition on a smaller scale of the cornice by the taeniaof the ovolo of the capital by… … Fig. 44. House at Detroit, Mich. Two unequal gables. as the motive for a facade, as the Attic base in Fig. 48. Ofcourse it is not meant especially to commend the semi-circular outline for a gable, but only to show the analogybetween this and such a scheme as the St. Paul office build-ing facade.…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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