Cottage residences; or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds. Adapted to North America. Part I. Illustrated by numerous engravings (1844)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 · New-York, London, Wiley and Putnam · leaf 44
istical regularity, Symmetry, artistical irregu- larity. There are irregular buildings without symmetry, but in all irregular compositions entirely satisfactory, it will generally be found that there is a kind of hidden pro- portion which one half of the whole bears to the other, and it is this… … [Figure 1.] building represented, which is full of irregularity, is also symmetrical, for if we divide it by the imaginary line a, 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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