Vitruvian Man

1. Vitruvian Man Space and Scale RSTT Nanette Perez Oscar Rodriguez

2. Is a world-renowned drawing with accompanying notes created by Leonardo Da Vinci around the year 1487.

3. The Fibonacci Spiral is related to the divine proportion. • The human body is divided into two halves by the sexual organs, while the navel determines the golden section. • Vitruvius described as the principal source of proportion among the orders of architecture the proportion of the human figure.

5. A palm is the width of four fingers. A foot is the width of four palms (i.e. 12 inches). A cubit is the width of six palms. A man's height is four cubits (and thus 24 palms). A pace is four cubits. The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height. The distance from the hairline to the bottom of the chin is one-tenth of a man's height. The distance from the top of the head to the bottom of the chin is one-eighth of a man's height. The maximum width of the shoulders is a quarter of a man's height.

6. According to Leonardo's notes in the accompanying text, it was made as a study of the proportions of the (male) human body as described in Vitruvius books.

7. Human Scale

8. In architectural history most of the time, the buildings and every space designed to the human being. • The work of Vitruvius and Da Vinci became usefully to every student of architecture and inspiring to other architects like Le Corbusier who created “The Modulor”.

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