Proportion (architecture)
Proportion is the relation between elements and a whole.
| “ | Proportion is a correspondence among the measures of the members of an entire work, and of the whole to a certain part selected as standard. From this result the principles of symmetry. Without symmetry and proportion there can be no principles in the design of any temple; that is, if there is no precise relation between its members as in the case of those of a well shaped man. —Vitruvius, The Ten Books of Architecture (III, Ch. 1) | ” |
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