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obtained from paint, the designer, has actually a very powerful means 

 of unifying his design, of concealing defects, of accenting excellences. 

 Every architect knows that, in a wooden house, good forms in his build- 

 ing mass, good arrangements in fenestration, may be emphasized by 

 appropriate painting, and that to some extent unfortunate arrange- 

 ments forced upon him by the use of the building may be rendered less 

 noticeable in the same way. As an object in the landscape, a large and 

 ugly but unimportant building may be subdued by being painted to 

 match its background ; a small building, intended to serve as a point 

 of interest but hardly large enough for its task, may be painted white. 

 A group of buildings may be unified and shown to belong to the same 

 scheme, to the same owner, by being painted with the same colors. 

 The repetition of the main architectural mass of the house by out- 

 lying buildings in the scheme may be in this way very successfully 

 enhanced. Under the blazing sun of California or Florida, these 

 colors may be brilliant as they often are in Spain and in Italy ; under 

 the grayer sky of New England, cream white, or gray white, or gray, 

 or brown, or gray green, would be colors in paint likely to be more con- 

 gruous with the rest of the scene, but even there a tile roof of a fairly 

 brilliant red may make a pleasant spot in the landscape. 



The smaller architectural structures, being, more commonly than 

 the larger buildings, subordinate objects in the landscape, come more 

 completely in the field of the landscape architect. Their essence and 

 individuality are usually architectural, however, and this should be con- 

 sidered even if the structure is made solely for its effect in a landscape 

 design. The structures which we discuss as examples are only a few 

 out of many, and the considerations brought up are merely some of 

 the broad relations of such structures considered as units in landscape 

 composition.* 

 Shelters and Besides the larger architectural structures which are commonly 



Pavilions made primarily for some economic use, and smaller buildings for serv- 



ice purposes only, there are a number of lesser structures built pri- 

 marily for enjoyment, such as pavilions, shelters, gazebos, pergolas. 

 These structures may have certain specific functions of pleasurable 



* Cf. also discussions of structures in the garden, the estate, and in landscape 

 parks, in Chapter XI. 



