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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 89

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ROMAN MEDIAEVAL ^—-^ \ \ \ / JEPF^e^NJ PENJIOJltHFDR-THE ROTUNDA OF THEUNIVER-flTY OP VIRGINIA 82 THE BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY ! ^ APPLICATION OF THL EOUiLATERALTRJANGLEi TO THL LR£-CHTHLUM~ AT ATHENS. … WE5T 51DE« porx:h of the-caryatides LATENT GEOMETRY 83 But architecture is geometrical in another and a highersense than this. Emerson says: The pleasure a palace ora temple gives the eye is that an order and a method hasbeen communicated to stones, so that they speak and geometrize,

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