The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1922)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · New York, A. A. Knopf · leaf 34
ult,the truly characteristic and determining forms of Roman archi-tecture. Our symbol grows therefore by the addition of thearc of a circle (Illustration 4). In Gothic architecturecolumn, lintel, arch and vault are all retained in changed form,but that which more than anything else differentiates… … thrust with another contrary to it. This fact can be indicatedgraphically by two opposing inclined lines, and these united tothe preceding symbol yield an accurate abstract of the elementsof Gothic architecture (Illustration 5). 28 THE BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY All this is but an unusual application of a…
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