Gilman, Benjamin Ives, 1852-1933, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston · Cambridge, Printed by order of the trustees of the Museum at the Riverside Press · leaf 172
nd,and have no professional purpose. They are diagrams,aiming first to express a certain disposition, proportion andassignment of spaces more perfectly, easily, and quicklythan would be possible by a verbal description: and secondto indicate to the eye that the structural scheme proposedmight not… … o o - 3 144 MUSEUM IDEALS 6. The problem of the roof. An important practical bene-fit and an important aesthetic advantage result to thestandard museum arrangement from the application ofthe clerestory principle. Replacing a quasi-court by a truenave replaces a re-entrant roof, leaky in rain and…
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