The meaning of architecture; an essay in constructive criticism (1918)
Pond, Irving Kane, 1857- · Boston, Marshall Jones company · leaf 225
y theIonic volute (Fig. 17-B) and by the line of theDoric abacus, if we conceive the curve prolonged(Fig. 9-C). This rising tendency at the end ofthe curve, this reaching out and up into the future,is essentially symbolic of modern thought whetherarising from a belief in the continuation of… … Fig 17 DISPOSITION OF ORNAMENT M ^^ .1 • nan t coo [208] character exerts on generations yet unborn. Fur-thermore, a rare characteristic of the ornamentI am describing is that it lends itself, at this point,to an expression of such emotionalism, say, aswe find in the Gothic with its virile,…
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