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The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1922)

Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · New York, A. A. Knopf · leaf 105

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of so subdividing a f agade that the eye estimates the numberof its openings without conscious effort and consequent fatigue(Illustration 82). The tracery of Gothic windows forms per-haps the highest and finest architectural expression of number(Illustration 83). Just as thirst makes Water more… … BASED ON THE HEX-AORJVM. OX, NUMBEK6,wmMUlS:]PU.S4.4. JT.OU3N.ia3UmBMEOONTHEPBNTALPHA^MUITIPl.E0f3

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