Rhythm

=Vocabulary=

Bay spacing: each space or interval between the frames of a steel building is a bay.



Relief: shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background.

Staccato: marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply. Masses: descriptors for features that are not separable components.

Subtly: difficult to detect or grasp by the mind.



=RHYTHM=

Is harmony simplicity

Types
Repetition of shapes: windows, doors, columns, wall areas, arches, and the like.

Repetition of dimensions: such as the dimensions between supports or those of bay spacing.

Repetition of differences: the ascending and descending progressions are built up from small to large and to small again.

Indefinite and open: a mere repetition of similar units equally spaced and without a defined beginning or a defined end

Definite and closed: Rhythms can be closed by changing the shapes of the units at the ends or by changing the size of the units at the ends. It can also be closed by adding to each end a strongly marked opposing rhythm.

Rhythm of lines.

Larger rhythms of interior spaces.