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axialplanning mustresult.
Symmetryand
Balance
are
forms
of Order; but they
are beautiful, not
because they are orderly,
but because they carry
with
them
amovement and stabiUtywhichare
our
naturaldelight. Then,since
architectureisamonu-
mentalart,surrounding
us with an influencenever
relaxed andnottobeescaped,
calmandunthwarted
movement will here
most often be desired. Thus
Order, thoughitcannot ensure
beauty, mayfollow
initswake.
r.
YetCoherenceinarchitecture,distinctthoughitis
frombeauty,has
a
function
ofitsown./Humanised
mass, space,and line are the basis of beauty, but
coherence
is the
basis of styl^j Mass,space, and
line afford the
material of individual aesthetic
pleasures, of beauty isolated and detached. But
architecture aims at
more than isolated pleasures.
Itisaboveallelseanart ofsynthesis. Itcontrols
anddisciplinesthebeauty
ofpainting,sculpture,and
,
the minorarts;it austerelyorderseven thebeauty
which is itsown. It
seeks,throughstyle,togiveit
clarity and scope, and that
coherence which the
beauty of.Nature
lacks. Nature, it is true, is for
sciencean
intelligiblesystem. But
thegroupswhich
theeye,atanyone
glance,discoversinNatureare
not
intelligible. Theyare
understood onlybysuccessive
acts ofattention
and elimination
;
and,even
then,
wehaveto
supplementwhat