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, Sir, 1791-1863 · New York, Van Nostrand · leaf 162
ner vertical line of themass, which is analogous to the relations shown in Fig.101, although not preciselysimilar. At Fig. 103 the propor-tional relations in one par-ticular are just the same asin Fig. 102. In both of them themain diagonal shows thatthe ratios of base to heightof the part of each… … Fig. 103. CATHEDRAL, MARSEILLES. Disproportion between masses andlink. and mass are quite differ-ent from those that obtainin Fig. 103. In the former,these relations are the typi-cal ones shown in diagram (Fig. 98, a) of direct proportionbetween mass and link; while in the latter no relations…
Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc
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