Selected Bibliography Architecture - Form Space and Order | Page 28

LINEAR ELEMENTS

Town Hall, Säynätsalo, Finland, 1950–52, Alvar Aalto

At a smaller scale, lines articulate the edges and surfaces of planes and
volumes. These lines can be expressed by joints within or between building
materials, by frames around window or door openings, or by a structural grid
of columns and beams. How these linear elements affect the texture of a
surface will depend on their visual weight, spacing, and direction.

Crown Hall, School of Architecture and Urban Design, Illinois Institute of
Technology, Chicago, 1956, Mies van der Rohe

Seagram Building, New York City, 1956–58, Mies van de Rohe
and Philip Johnson

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