Construction : a journal for the architectural engineering and contracting interests of Canada (1913)
Macdonald, Ivan S, McLean, Robert Craik, Reed, Frederick, Keith, Fraser Sanderson, 1878-, Toutloff, M. B · Toronto : Consolidated Press · leaf 276
e of the vista, and the grouping of their public buildings round itshows the value attached to the formation of someclimax in their design, an effect, however, more mag-nificently obtained by the placing of the great domi-nating temples on an eminence, giving to the wholecomposition a sense of… … (b) Roman.In the study of Roman Civic Art it is the greatscale and the big way of approaching problems whichstrike one most forcibly. Possessed of more powerand fewer restrictions than the Greeks, they did nothesitate to cut away the side of a hill or to fill in avalley to suit their magnificent…
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