The genesis of art-form; an essay in comparative æsthetics showing the identity of the sources, methods, and effects of composition in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1893)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 147
e the principal mass of it, formed of mud ORGANIC FORM IN ARCHITECTURE. 123 or clay, of brick or stones, of logs or hewn timber. (SeeFigs. 1, 24, 61, pages 15, 79, 193.) In addition to foot and trunk, corresponding to founda-tion and wall, the building must have a head, which, ofcourse, can be… … FIG. 42.—OLD PICTURE OF ST. SOPHIA, CONSTANTINOPLE.See pages 18, 76, 77, 96, 124, 180, 187, 190, 207, 261, 262. you, he asks in the first of his Lectures on Architecture, what effect the cottage would have upon your feelingsif it had no roof? no visible roof, I mean. The very soulof the cottage,…
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