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TOWARDS A NEW ARCHITECTURE
REGULATING LINES SHOWN ON A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE CAPITOL:
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THE CAPITOL, ROME
The placing of the right angle has come into play to determine the intentions of Michaelangelo, causing the same principle, which fixes the chief divisions of the wings and of the main building, to govern the detail of the wings, the slope of the staircases, the placing of the windows, the height of the basement, etc.
The work is conceived in regard to its situation, and its enveloping mass has been brought into association with the volume and space of its surroundings; it heaps itself together,
