The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1910)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · Rochester, N. Y., The Manas press · leaf 90
Its beauty is portrayed geometrically in theaccompanying figure which expresses it,being 15 triangles in three groups of 5(Illustration 87). Few arrangements ofopenings in a fagade better satisfy the eyethan three superim-posed groups of five(Illustrations yy,81). May not one source of this… … 84 THE BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY vi beauty comes always, not from beautiful numbers, nor from likenesses toNatures eternal patterns of the world, but from utility, fitness, economy,and the perfect adaptation of means to ends. But along with this truththere goes another: that in every excellent work of…
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