Activities-Scale

In this page you will find some activities related to scale.

The objective of this lesson is that, at the end, the student will understand the importance and application of scale and proportions in architecture.

Read the following article about scale:

[|scale]

Watch the following video:

[|so you want to be an architect?]

Having gathered the previous information, compare the scale proportions of the following contexts:



Do you perceive any building(s) out of scale in the following image. Explain



A great example of scale in architecture is the Parthenon in Athens. Greeks studied deeply human and divine proportions. Click on the next link and entertain yourself doing a puzzle!

[|Parthenon puzzle]