Selected Bibliography Architecture - Form Space and Order | Page 52

SHAPE

These examples illustrate how shaping the juncture between mass and space
expresses the manner in which the contours of a building mass rise from the
ground plane and meet the sky.

Central Pavilion, Horyu-Ji Temple, Nara, Japan, A.D. 607

Villa Garches, Vaucresson, France, 1926–27, Le Corbusier.
This architectural composition illustrates the interplay
between the shapes of planar solids and voids.

Suleymaniye Mosque,
Constantinople (Istanbul), 1551–58, Sinan

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