Sentence examples for architectural proportion from inspiring English sources

Then there was this gigantic conservation effort and I saw how Wren's pupil Hawksmoor understood architectural proportion.

Although from up here it all looks a confusing jumble, Peter Hall points out in his Cities in Civilisation that down at pavement level every corner, every balcony and every doorway that Haussmann could get his hands on is a mathematical equation of perfect architectural proportion.

Works most usually associated with it are the Mona Lisa and the Parthenon in Athens, although Swiss architect Le Corbusier relied on it for his Modulor system for the scale of architectural proportion and Dali explicitly used it in The Sacrament of the Last Supper.

It is by no means certain that Gropius' concept of the fundamental interdependence of architectural proportion and architectural ornament was irrevocably established by the Bauhaus theorists or that future architectural theorists need only concentrate on such minor modifications to the concept as may be required by sociological and technological developments.

A master key of the Louis XVI period, wrought in the age of light-hearted art, was more astonishing with its starkly geometrical design and powerful architectural proportions.

Lester traces the conceptual origins of the drawing back to the ancient Greek sculptors and builders who sought to record the proportions of the perfect human body, and from there to Vitruvius himself, who used similar calculations as the basis for his ideal architectural proportions.

This paper seeks to attest, through computer modeling, a new light on the impact of buildings architectural proportions upon their behavior during earthquakes.

The sculpture grew in size as the time went on, taking on architectural proportions.

Le Corbusier's thoughts during this time led to the elaboration of the first bases of the "Modulor" concept, a scale of harmonic measures that set architectural elements in proportion to human stature.

This is another example of the artist's inspired craziness, beautifully framed by the classically proportioned architectural setting.

After last season's tricky and conceptual collection, he focused on sumptuous tonal pieces that, despite their plays on proportion and architectural details, were some of the most beautiful clothes of New York fashion week.