The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1910)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · Rochester, N. Y., The Manas press · leaf 95
g to Gwilt, the Gothicchapels of Windsor and Oxford are dividedlongitudinally by four, and transversely byseven equal parts. The arcade above theroses in the fagade of the cathedral of Tours shows seven principal units across the front of the nave, and four in each of the towers. A distinguishing… … H0U5E IN RDM£ 90 VII FROZEN MUSIC 89 series always approaches unity, just as, represented graphically by means of paral-lelograms, it tends towards a square. Ac-cording to W. Watkins Lloyd—in an article published in The American Architect of March 31, 1888—the scale of ratios which determined all…
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