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 92
Fig. 48. Analogy of outline of Attic base to acomposition of two unequal primary PRIMARY MASSES 75 projection of the central mass is greater in comparison withthat of the side masses. In c, the central mass is crownedwith a bulging mansard, and the side masses with mansardsof rectilinear outline,… … Fig. 49-Morris Heights School, New York City. Three nearly equal masses. become a great dome, the two flanking masses being spiresof classical detail.1 Many other examples might be interpolated betweenthese, constituting a regular series; those shown are enoughto illustrate the chief steps in the…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc · Building
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