Architecture & Built Environment · Architectural Design
A topic within Architectural Design, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.
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Le Corbusier
Proposes a proportioning system derived from human body measurements and the golden section, arguing architecture and industrial design should be dimensioned from the human body rather than from arbitrary metric units.
Leon Battista Alberti
Beauty in a building is concinnitas, a harmony of parts governed by fixed numerical proportion, so that nothing could be added or removed without making the whole worse.
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