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L INE AR ELEMENTS

A line can be an imagined element rather than a visible one in
architecture. An example is the axis, a regulating line established
by two distant points in space and about which elements are
symmetrically arranged.

Villa Aldobrandini, Italy, 1598–1603, Giacomo Della Porta

House 10, 1966, John Hejduk
Although architectural space exists in three dimensions, it can be linear in
form to accommodate the path of movement through a building and link its
spaces to one another.

Buildings also can be linear in form, particularly
when they consist of repetitive spaces organized
along a circulation path. As illustrated here, linear
building forms have the ability to enclose exterior
spaces as well as adapt to the environmental
conditions of a site.

Cornell University Undergraduate Housing, Ithaca, New York,
1974, Richard Meier

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