American churches ... A series of authoritative articles on designing, planning, heating, ventilating, lighting and general equipment of churches as demonstrated by the best practice in the United States (1915)
Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942, Baker, James McFarlan · New York, The American architect · leaf 22
heappearance of monotonousformalism may be of greatservice to them. Without evenstriving to copy any mediasvalform of refinement they may still work for results in the same direc-tion. It follows that the first practical valueof the new point of view to modern archi-tects must be the opportunity to… … FIG. 4. The south side of the nave at Chichester, looking toward the choir. Thisview shows the S-shaped curve in plan and also the widening refinement.The maximum deflection of the concave part of the attenuated S is about 8inches. The optical effect, as seen at the triforium string-course, is that…
Church architecture · Church decoration and ornament
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