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Architecture

the Renaissance practice of sizing rooms and facades by ratios taken from musical consonances, thought to mirror cosmic harmony.

In architecture, harmonic proportion refers to the Renaissance practice of sizing rooms and facades by ratios taken from musical consonances, thought to mirror cosmic harmony. This meaning comes from Wittkower (1949) in Architectural principles in the age of humanism.[1]

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Wittkower, R. (1949). Architectural principles in the age of humanism. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9780856708756

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