#Golden rectangle windows#

This is not the place to extend the discussion to the ideas of Divine Beauty or of God making man in his own image but it was certainly part of an attempt to analyse and categories and define what makes one shape or one building or one body beautiful and another not.

#Golden rectangle windows#

Admittedly, that hardly inhibited what they built when you look at the dome of St Peter’s or the spire of a great Gothic cathedral.īut when architects and builders in the past wanted to push the limits - to build bigger or higher - or if they wanted to undermine the strength of a wall by inserting large doorways or windows or load the walls with a heavier form of roof or ceiling structure - there were two arguments that could be used to convince unsure clients: architects cited either precedence … something similar had been built somewhere else and it was still standing … or they used geometry by using a shape or underlying arrangement of parts that appeared to be inherently stable … so, for instance, by using an equilateral triangle as the basic element of a cross section.įrom the Renaissance onwards, but actually derived from Greek and Roman theories of beauty, there was a third way to justify a design and that was to relate the proportions and the geometry of a design to the human form … preferably the perfect human form … so, Leonardo da Vinci demonstrated the underlying geometry and therefore the beauty of the human body by drawing a man, hands stretched out, fitting both within a circle and within a square. However, it was only with developments in both mathematics and in engineering following the work of Isaac Newton in the 17th century, that architects and engineers have been able to calculate momentum and force with ever greater accuracy to determine if a building will stand up under the weight of the structure itself and will cope with thepressure from weight loaded on the floors or withstand the pressure of weather … so heavy snow on the roof or strong gale-force winds or worse blowing against the walls.Īrchitects and masons in the medieval period and through the Renaissance understood that weight had to be carried down to the ground and tall thin walls, if not self-supporting, had to be propped up … so a buttresses is primarily a support for the structure and decorative only as a bonus … but they could not actually calculate loads or force.

Over the last year, several articles on the internet, and the comments that they have generated, have been scathing about the use of the Golden Section or Golden Rectangle as an underlying geometric system for designing a building or designing a piece of furniture or for setting out the main elements in a painting as if it was either just an odd intellectual game - and therefore obviously suspicious - or something that was so malleable that it has hardly any real meaning.

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