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In Class Exercise 5_Function & Form 1 - Non-plan

on April 16, 2020

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The study of the mathematical relationship between nature and human dimensions has been explored since the 1400s starting with Leonardo Da Vinci in about 1490 (Oksanish, 2019). He drew the Vitruvian Man, which were proportions of the human body according to Vitruvius, a Roman architect (Oksanish, 2019). The human proportion drawing (Figure 1) shows a man in two superimposed positions with his legs and arms apart surrounded by a square and a circle. The drawing is based on measurements of male models in Milan, a representation of the ideal male figure according to Da Vinci (Oksanish, 2019), however, this proportion system only represented a tiny percentage of the human population (Arellano, 2018). Le Corbusier expressed his support for Da Vinci’s ideas of the ideal human proportions, however, in his obsession with creating harmony between the human body and spaces, he sought to establish a new system that would bind the body to the architec...

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