Architecture; an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · London: Williams and Norgate · leaf 130
chitects seem to have exhausted all the resources ox the art of planning. It became absolutely emancipated from precedent, and was pursued as research into the possibilities of form and com.bination. The most accomplished modern French masters of arrangement can do no more than recombine Roman… … Fig. 19. and radiating from a centre. Fig. 18 is the plan of a building in Rome known a,s the Temple of Minerva Medica; Fig. 19 shows two tombs. All kinds of expedients were adopted f oi continuing vistas, suggesting symmetry and masking irregularities, both in single build- ings and in the laying…
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