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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 88

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rchitecture is ge-ometry made visible, eoin the same sense that music is number made audible.A building is an aggregation of the commonest geometrical forms: parallelograms, prisms, pyr-amids and cones—the cylinder ap-pearing in the column, and the hemi-sphere in the dome. The plans like-wise of…

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