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Architecture and democracy (1918)

Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · New York, A. A. Knopf · leaf 118

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AN ORNAN.^NT^ PANlJl, DEVElLpPEp T^RDM A W€\\C 4-X4 Figure figures of geometry. The squaring of a number—the raising of it to its second power—findsgraphic expression in the plane figure of the square;and the cubing of a number—the raising of it toits third power—in the solid figure of the cube.Now… … PLATE XII. IMAGINARY COMPOSITION : THE BAIXONY THE KEVv^ YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOXTILDEIvi FOUKDATTONS The World Order time immemorial as useful ornamental motifs.Other elementary geometrical figures, making con-crete to the eye the truths of abstract number, maybe dealt with by the designer…

Sullivan, Louis H., 1856-1924 · Architecture · Architecture -- United States · Decoration and ornament

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