Hints to young architects, comprising advice to those who, while yet at school, are destined to the profession, to such as, having passed their pupilage, are about to travel and to those who, having completed their education, are about to practise, together with a model specification involving a great variety of instructive and suggestive matter (1887)
Wightwick, George · London, Lockwood · leaf 75
obtained on elevation.] The geometrical elevation of a circular temple ismost deceptive in its appearance, and will occasionexpectations of much greater width than a near per-spective view will exhibit: thus, the building whichwill show geometrically as fig. 1, will show perspec-tively as fig. 2.… … VALUE OF ANGULAR PERSPECTIVE. 63 Value of Angular Perspective.—Again, the geo-metrical elevation of a square tower, in which theexpression of great altitude is required, should bemade with reference to the increased bulk it willexhibit, when viewed diagonally, to the prejudice ofits loftiness. The…
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