Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, MacMillan & Co. · leaf 146
hich all the chieflines of the building led; in maintaining the horizontal linesof the basilica no feature had so decisive an influence as theceiling. Practically, it was of no less importance that thebuilding should be acoustically adapted to its use as an audi-torium. No other established type of… … Fig. 35. — Basilica in Kalb-Luseh, Syria. 118 ARCHITECTUIiE but in the early period it was, as it has come to be again in theProtestant churches, a matter of supreme importance. Evenfor the intoning of the prayers and the chanting of the Psabnsa good acoustic quaUty was a desideratum, but besides…
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