Cottage residences; or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds : adapted to North America (1873)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 · New York : J. Wiley & Son · leaf 47
19 COTTAGE EESIDEI^CES. tlie otlier, and it is this balance wliicli constitutes sym- metry. A building may be higlily irregular, it may abound in variety and picturesqueness, and yet be perfectly symmet- rical. In the annexed rough sketch (Fig. 1), the pile of … Fig. 1. building represented, which is full of irregularity, is also symmetrical, for if we divide it by the imaginary line the portion on the right balances that on the left ; that is, though not in shape, yet in bulk and in the mass of com- position ; while in Fig. 2, which is a uniform or…
Architecture, Domestic
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