and meretricious draftsmanship, pattern in plan without visualization of the result of the pattern is all too common.
Of course, regularity of fenestration furnishes an easy basis for monumental quality and often provides incidentally for an even and practically effective distribution of light over floor areas, but in the case of the larger and more highly organic internal cells of structures this often results in utter dullness. The most harmonious proportions, the happiest decorations, the choicest materials and the most cunning craftsmanship will produce a mere assemblage of dissociated entities or a won
derland of delight, depending on how the light deals with them.
The eye does not require a great deal of light to see by in comfort; it does require a fine quality in the matter of shade and shadow. This continent is full of rows of large windows stopped off to 80 per cent with blinds, shades, awnings, sash-cloths and curtains and other encumbrances.
It is particularly in the churches that the greatest possibilities occur for composition in terms of light and shade yet how often, even in these, the very shapes of things so sedulously elaborated on the drawing board turn out “without form and void”
An aisle, Markisches Museum, Berlin Sculpture Gallery, The Museum, Darmstadt
Anteroom, Municipal Building, Berlin
Of course, regularity of fenestration furnishes an easy basis for monumental quality and often provides incidentally for an even and practically effective distribution of light over floor areas, but in the case of the larger and more highly organic internal cells of structures this often results in utter dullness. The most harmonious proportions, the happiest decorations, the choicest materials and the most cunning craftsmanship will produce a mere assemblage of dissociated entities or a won
derland of delight, depending on how the light deals with them.
The eye does not require a great deal of light to see by in comfort; it does require a fine quality in the matter of shade and shadow. This continent is full of rows of large windows stopped off to 80 per cent with blinds, shades, awnings, sash-cloths and curtains and other encumbrances.
It is particularly in the churches that the greatest possibilities occur for composition in terms of light and shade yet how often, even in these, the very shapes of things so sedulously elaborated on the drawing board turn out “without form and void”
An aisle, Markisches Museum, Berlin Sculpture Gallery, The Museum, Darmstadt
Anteroom, Municipal Building, Berlin