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breadth, and rectangular or curved shapes obtain everywhere, in the latter these 

 relations vary incessantly, and the halls are both rectangular and ^curved and 

 polygonal, the combination proceeding freely throughout and determined by 

 taste and the function subserved. There are perhaps no complete realizations of 

 either of these theories, but it is not difficult to see that they are fundamental. 

 The Composite, while nowhere extremely or logically developed, would perhaps 



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best describe the irregular succession of round and square, high and low halls 

 in some Art Museums, while the Simple is equally applicable to the large 

 museums in which the halls are square and rectangular and sensibly similar in 

 disposition of lighting, ceiling-heights, and dimensions. Figs. 24 and 25 illustrate 

 the plans of halls respectively Simple and Composite, and it is quite evident 



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that in the latter group a multiplicity of variations is permissible ; that in fact 

 the vagaries of an architect can in the latter touch the limits of irresponsible 

 creativeness. Figs. 26 and 27 show, in block inclined projections, the elevation 

 of the plans of simple and composite halls when combined in a museum struc- 

 ture. In composite construction no uniformity of plan need prevail, and the 



