Sentence examples for rules of proportion from inspiring English sources

He concentrated on mathematical rules of proportion.

There is the rule of thirds grid, golden spiral and golden triangles, all classic rules of proportion.

Uneven numbers of materials were always used, and rules of proportion dictated that plant material be at least one and one half times the height of the container.

Their knowledge of technics was a closely held secret; it included the rules of proportion for overall planning and for determining the safe dimensions of structural members.

This is domestic space of the highest order, its Great Hall a perfect 40-foot cube, designed by Jones to Palladio's rules of proportion, and its beautiful ground-to-roof cantilevered spiral staircase a triumph of design over gravity.

PERHAPS it is a search for order, for scale, for the rules of proportion, some impulse to keep track, but human beings seem hard-wired to take measure of the world around them.

Vessel diameter was calculated by rule of proportion using an intravascular reference (catheter tip with known size), thus avoiding errors caused by plane of projection.

Without all doubt the limbs and proportions of this statue are elegantly formed, and accurately designed, according to the nicest rules of symmetry and proportion: and the back parts especially are executed so happily, as to excite the admiration of the most indifferent spectator.

He has laid out and built 25 houses already, using his own idiosyncratic rules of classical proportion involving a set of ropes and a great deal of guesswork, "like the ancient Greeks did".

Published in 1995, this outlines Koolhaas's belief that the sheer bigness of cities and their buildings today means that the old classical and Modern Movement rules of design, proportion and planning are largely meaningless.

But why should digital architecture be exempt from the rules of scale and proportion that have governed every building since Adam put up his hut on the edge of paradise?