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Parti

In Beaux-Arts teaching, the basic idea or scheme of a plan, chosen in the first sketch (esquisse) and developed thereafter.

See also: Marche, Poché, Esquisse

Rules that use the word

Choose the parti. Begin a design by choosing its parti (the one governing idea of the plan) and commit to it in a first sketch; everything afterwards develops that choice.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Enlightenment and Revival.

A feature of Beaux-Arts architecture.

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