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The bases of design (1898)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London : George Bell and Sons · leaf 64

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stone vaulting, otherwise we might have lost Chap. I. Of the Archi- the rich timber roof for a modern idea of a tectural supposititious Norman vault. The sketch (from Basis the south side of the choir at Canterbury, p. 45), too, shows how harmoniously structural lines of different periods compose.… … solidifying the many vertical mullions. A certain refinement of detail and line with a feeling for emphatic horizontals and verticals comes in ; and this feeling may be the indication of a reaction, as if the constructive and imagi- native faculties of man were beginning to pre- pare for the next…

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