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Harmonic proportion

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See under Proportion.

See also: Harmonic



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Designed in an ultimately unhappy collaboration with Stonborough's brother and philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, the house combines Engelmann's interest in harmonic proportions and symmetry (learnt directly from Adolf Loos) with Wittgenstein's obsessive attention to detail and overt expression of bare bulbs, ventilation grills and lift mechanisms.
Test beds: considered collectively, key houses usefully summarise ... by Gregory, Rob / The Architectural Review
The game is won when a player manages to array the captured pieces into various progressions illustrating arithmetical, geometrical and harmonic proportion.
Ann E. Moyer. The Philosophers' Game: Rithmomachia in Medieval and ... by Goulding, Robert / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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