Journal of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Engineering (Transactions of AIJ)
Online ISSN : 2433-0043
Print ISSN : 0910-8017
ISSN-L : 0910-8017
ON THE IRRATIONAL PROPORTIONS IN ARCHITECTURE : THE GENEALOGY AND USAGE
Toshio ASANO
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1992 Volume 440 Pages 139-148

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Abstract
The traditionally represented lambda shape of the two geometrical progressions : 1, 2, 4, 8 and 1, 3, 9, 27 in Plato's Timaeus, the principal source for all irrational proportions used in the Occidental architecuture, reinterpreted as 1, √<2>, 2, 2√<2> and 1, 2/√<3>, 4/3, 8/3√<3>, has been proved the mathematical ground for the Roriczer's method of square and for the Roriczerian method of equilateral triangle formulated and named by the author. The two methods, the two irrational proportions had been the rules for the Geometrical schemes employed mainly in French High Gothic architecture. The rest one irrational proportion genealogized to the Plato's geometrical figures, the golden proportion, is, as well known, the method of Le Corbusier, le Modulor.
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