Talk:Division (architecture)

Public-domain sources and page references

The article summarises and in places closely paraphrases two public-domain books: John Beverley Robinson's Architectural Composition (1908) and William H. Varnum's Industrial Arts Design (1916). Their reuse is acknowledged by {{Source-attribution}} in the article, alongside full citations and {{sfn}} references with page numbers. This is an adaptation of English-language public-domain sources, so a {{Translated page}} banner is not applicable. The article was created on 25 September 2026 with the edit summary "new article using public-domain sources".

Robinson, Architectural Composition (1908)

• Author and edition: the Internet Archive scan was used. Its title page identifies the author as John Beverley Robinson, member of the American Institute of Architects, and gives New York, D. Van Nostrand Company, and London, B. T. Batsford, with the date 1908. The bibliography cites the New York publisher.
• Misattributed metadata: the scan's catalogue metadata names the author as "Robinson, John Beverley, Sir, 1791–1863", the Canadian jurist and politician. That identification is wrong for a book published in 1908 and is not used. No English Wikipedia article on the architect exists at present; the article links John Beverley Robinson (architect) rather than John Beverley Robinson, which is about the Toronto mayor.
• Page numbers: the footnotes cite printed page numbers, not positions in the scan. In the passages used, printed page 115 is PDF page 131, an offset of 16 pages. Printed pages 120 and 123 are PDF pages 136 and 139.
• Page map: the following table records where each part of the article is supported.

Article subject	Printed pages
Principal and subordinate masses, links, and appendages	59–61
Paired and triple principal masses	64–65, 74–78
Composition through the arrangement of openings	109–112
Vertical dividing features and their subdivisions	112–115
Horizontal division through changes in projection	115–117
Mouldings, shadows, ornament, and repeated features	117–119
Relative emphasis of vertical and horizontal lines	120
Two- and three-part horizontal arrangements and examples	120–125
Grouping storeys into larger divisions	125–131
Repeated stages and the role of roofs	132–135

Varnum, Industrial Arts Design (1916)

• Edition: the Project Gutenberg HTML edition was used. The footnotes cite the original page numbers, which that edition reproduces in square brackets. The title page gives Scott, Foresman and Company, Chicago and New York, copyright 1916; the preface is signed William Harrison Varnum, Madison, Wisconsin, April 1916.
• Passages cited: p. 21 for the ground as the first horizontal line and the effect of horizontal bands; pp. 25–29 for the rules on two and three horizontal divisions; pp. 33–39 for the Gothic example and the three-part vertical arrangement; and p. 133, the opening of chapter XI, for the term minor subdivisions and the statement that the rules for major divisions apply to them.
• Relationship between the sources: Varnum's preface acknowledges "Mr. J. B. Robinson, author of Architectural Composition" among those to whom reference is made in the text. The two books are therefore not fully independent, and the article does not present agreement between them as independent corroboration.

Editorial choices

• Scope: the article covers the visual division of masses and elevations by vertical and horizontal lines. Articulation (architecture) is linked as a related concept rather than treated as a synonym. Cornices and string courses are discussed as horizontal dividing features. The German article on architectural axes is linked in See also through {{ill}}; an axis and a division are not treated as interchangeable terms.
• Attribution of design rules: evaluative rules, such as which of three divisions should dominate, are attributed to Robinson or Varnum rather than stated in Wikipedia's voice. Where the two books differ, the differences are preserved.
• Omitted material: Robinson's dated statements that masonry setbacks or overhangs are generally impracticable were omitted. Related Wikipedia articles were consulted for scope and links only; they are not cited, and their text has not been incorporated.
• Wording: compact summaries are used, but the sources' own vocabulary and phrases are followed where they are distinctive, including "vertical line of shadow", "advance and retreat", and the comparison of a moulding to a black brush mark drawn across the wall.
• Major and minor divisions: this section cites Varnum, p. 133, for the terminology and Robinson, p. 114, for the example of a storey divided by coupled columns and subdivided by single columns. That example was placed here rather than in the vertical-divisions section to avoid repetition.

Викидим (talk) 23:44, 25 September 2026 (UTC)