Cottage residences : or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds. Adapted to North America (1847)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 · New York : Wiley and Putnam · leaf 41
tical regularity, Symmetry, artistical irregularity.There are irregular buildings without symmetry, but in allirregular compositions entirely satisfactory, it will generallybe found that there is a kind of hidden proportion which onehalf of the whole bears to the other, and it is this balancewhich… … | Figure 1.] sented, which is full of irregularity, is also symmetrical, forif we divide it by the imaginary line a, the portion on theright balances that on the left; that is, though not in shape,yet in bulk and in the mass of composition ; while in Fig. 2,which is a uniform or regular building,…
Architecture, Domestic
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