Space versus Place: the Loss and Recovery of Proportionality in Architecture
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*Giedion, Sigfried. Space, Time, and Architecture: the growth of a new tradition. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954 (3rd edition). (selected chapters)
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Pevsner, Nikolaus. Report of a Debate on the Motion 'that Systems of Proportion make good design easier and bad design more difficult'. The Journal of the R.I.B.A. (Royal Institute of British Architects). Vol. 64, No. 11, September, 1957. pp. 456-463.
N.B.: The debate was rooted in Rudolf Wittkower's ideas of the humanist tradition, including proportions in architecture. Peter Smithson, et al, were supposedly all there for the vote. Proportion lost 60:48.
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*Wittkower, Rudolph. The Changing Concept of Proportion. Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences). Vol. 89, 1960. pp. 199-215.
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