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 89
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.… … Fig. 45-Office Building, St. Paul, Minn. ■■■! le of two unequal primary masses, connected by a link. 72 PRIMARY MASSES 13 masses. Such are found in great profusion and of allvarieties, but we search in vain for anything correspondingto the two masses that is the rule in compositions of two;that is…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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