The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1922)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · New York, A. A. Knopf · leaf 106
e it,and yet so simple that it can beanalyzed at a glance; as a center with two equal sides, it is pos-sessed of symmetry, and as the sumof an odd and even number (3 and4) it has vitality and variety. Allthese properties a work of architec-ture can variously reveal (Illus-tration 77). Fifteen,… … ARCHrrExmjRAl^ ORJ<tAMtNTCDWlDERiECAJTHE.OEJECTlFlC/fflONOF NUME£J?___.
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