The meaning of architecture; an essay in constructive criticism (1918)
Pond, Irving Kane, 1857- · Boston, Marshall Jones company · leaf 149
lling a struc-tural want, but, as we have seen, an utterance ofthat powerful something which was necessary tothe wonderfully expressed relationship betweencolumn and entablature, to the perfect proportionof the shaft and the exquisite line of the echinus.Not only did the echinus function against… … [ 132] THE ELEMENT OF RHYTHM ARCHITECTURE, whether it be consideredmerely as an affair of abstract aesthetics,Lor regarded in the higher light of spirit-ual symbolism in aesthetic terms, depends in largemeasure for its emotional appeal upon the essen-tial element of rhythm. Before the…
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