Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 189
plane with the face of thefrieze above is a more important consideration. This causes thecolumns at the corner of the building to come closer to each other thananywhere else along the colonnade, and the effect itself is neitherunpleasant nor very apparent, this extra strengthening of the cornerof… … Fig. 88. The Propylaea. Athens. portico, the usual methods of spacing the Greek Doric order is amplyillustratetl. The central space, the principal entrance to the Acropolisabove, demanded a wider opening than that given by the monotri-glyphic intercolumniation, therefore the builders very naturally…
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