
design
Proportions
Submitted by GFS on Thu, 2008-02-07 17:27.As a starter for consideration, here are a few diagrams that will be useful. Keep in mind that these little diagrams can be used at any scale to generate proportional division in a design, in plan, elevation, and section. Just by using the golden rectangle (phi), one can draft a complete order of classical architecture, a tetrastyle temple, proportion mouldings cohesively, etc. etc.
Beaux-Arts: Style or Method?
Submitted by palazzo on Sat, 2007-01-20 12:45.
Beaux-Arts architecture, also known as Academic architecture,
designates a general approach to teaching and practice fostered by the
Académie Royale d'Architecture, incorporated into the École des
Beaux-Arts after the Revolution, the most influential architecture
school in the Western world since its foundation in the 17th century
until reforms in the mid-20th century terminated its architecture
program.
The École des Beaux-Arts
