Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · New York, A. A. Knopf · leaf 114
Architecture and Democracy elaborate for the achievement of a simple result — like burning the house down in order to get roast pig — there are other more simple ways of deriv- ing ornament from mathematics, for the truths of number find direct and perfect expression in the … AH ORHAMENTAL, PANEj4 DE VEipi^D TtoM A MAQlC 4X4 iS’qUAJ^ OP Q RQ1 Figure 8 figures of geometry. The squaring of a number — the raising of it to its second power — finds graphic expression in the plane figure of the square ; and the cubing of a number — the raising of it to its third power — in…
Sullivan, Louis H., 1856-1924 · Architecture · Decoration and ornament
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