activities-SCALE

= Lesson prepared by ANA CAPRILES =

__** Notes from the text **__


 * When the proportions of architectural composition are applied to a particular building, the two-termed relationship of the parts to the whole must be harmonized with a third term, the observer. He measures the proportions of the building against his own dimensions. This Threetermed relationship is what's best called SCALE.
 * It may be that the success of scale depends upon man’s ability to comprehend proportions in relation to some unit or module that is roughly human sized and close enough to a person in a building to permit him to measure it against himself.
 * The Greeks, in employing the base of the column as a module for all the proportions of a temple, found a unit of a size that can be grasped easily and one that is close to eye level as a person approaches the temple.
 * Romans use the column as their module, Gothic architecture used the base of the prier. In masonry construction, the block is the module. In frame construction the bay is the module. Skycrapers have the repetition of all this modules.

__** LE MODULOR **__  Is a scale of proportions devised by Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier developed the Modulor in the long tradition of Vitruvius, Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, the work of Leone Battista Alberti, and other attempts to discover mathematical proportions in the human body and then to use that knowledge to improve both the appearance and function of architecture.




 * __ THE GOLDEN SECTION __**

 Is a ratio based in a PHi. The Golden Section is also known as the Golden Mean, Golden Ratio and Divine Proportion.

This ratio has been used by mankind for centuries
and balance in the design of architecture. > and balance in the design of art.
 * Its use may have started as early as with the Egyptians in the design of the pyramids.
 * The Greeks recognized it as "dividing a line in the extreme and mean ratio"**.** And used it for beauty
 * The Renaissance artists knew it as the **Divine Proportion.** And used it for beauty
 * It was used in the design of Notre Dame in Paris.
 * And continues today in many examples of art, architecture and design.
 * It also appears in the physical proportions of the human body, movements in the stock market and many other aspects of life and the universe.