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Proportion

Richard Padovan · 1999

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This handbook provides the student, practising architect or interested layman with an illustrated and comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture, setting out the mathematical principles that underly the main systems.

First sentence: On 18 June 1957 the motion 'that Systems of Proportion make good design easier and bad design more difficult' was defeated, by 60 votes to 48, in a debate at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London.

Book details

Year
1999
Language
English
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Editions
8
Pages
388
ISBN
9780419227809

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