The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1910)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · Rochester, N. Y., The Manas press · leaf 27
ember may be said to have 20 THE BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY been in Egyptian architecture the predominant one. A vertical line, there-fore, may be taken as the simplest and most abstract symbol of Egyptianarchitecture (Illustration 2). It remained for the Greeks fully to developthe lintel. In their… … reduced to those proportions most consistent with strength and beauty, andthe intercolumnations were relatively greater than in Egyptian examples.It may truly be said that Greek architecture exhibits the perfect equality andequipoise of vertical and horizontal elements and these only, no other…
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