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REGULATING LINES
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is concentrated, is a unit, expresses the same law throughout and becomes a massive thing.


EXTRACT FROM BLONDEL'S OWN NOTES ON THE PORTE SAINT DENIS

(See the illustration at the beginning of this section):

The principal mass is fixed, the opening of the bay is sketched in. A bold regulating line, on the unit of 3, divides the ensemble of the arch, and the various other parts of the work, as to height and breadth, and governs everything according to the same unit of 3.


THE PETIT TRIANON:

THE PETIT TRIANON, VERSATLLES

Placing of the right angle.