On The Thought Of Propotion In Ten Books On Architecture

Ten Books on Architecture is a classical theory which contains rich architecture thoughts in Western Roman period. It is the oldest and the most influential architecture book that has the very high reputation in the world. The content involves architecture basic principle, charting knowledge, material and so on. Its system is very complete.The proportion thought is the one central content in the book. Because they had not unified measurement standards in construction at that time, Vitruvius suggested to apply the body's natural proportion in the construction on measuring in Ten Books on Architecture. Then he summarized the proportion of the laws of human anatomy. So this book might be the source of proportion research. In the fourth book, the content also emphatically focus on the balance of the construction of parthenon. However, the balance comes by the proportion, so in fact it also stressed the importance of the application of architectural design. This paper is precisely based on the explanation and understanding of this part. Then achieves mastery comprehensive study on the proportion in other field of Art and Design beside the construction., At the same time, the paper makes discussion on the role of proportion which is one of formal rules in beauty in Art and Design so as to give the reality instruction.The topic of this research locks in the proportion and it is very centralized. On present the research is a quite new topic, and there is a little lack in research on the subject. The paper attempts to carefully examine the proportion question in "Ten Books on Architecture" by critically dialectical vision. Firstly, it makes an survey on "Ten Books on Architecture" and paving the way of exposition in proportion's elementary theory .Under the premise of understanding the related knowledge, the paper analyzed the temple proportion design and arrangement in "Ten Books on Architecture". Meanwhile, we comprehend the core connotation in this classical book, grasp the rigor, the scientific nature and the artistry of the proportion. Finally the article emphasizes on studying on the purpose of application, stresses the relation between theory and actual, carries the detailed research on the proportion in the design art's utilization, understands the value and significance of the proportion profoundly.This article achievement mainly has the following points: First, it arouses the people from the thought to the proportion question value, not only emphasizes its importance theoretically, what is heavier is the destination in the practice process to utilize; Second, it attempts to break the perceptual artistic creation ideological mode, builds a bridge between the rationality and the perception, mathematics and art through the proportion, enables the work to have more thought-provoking formal language; Third, it has made elaboration to the proportion question systematically in theory, takes massive times in the writing process to earnestly explain the proportion thought in the obscure book, organizes and analyzes the contains. To understand the proportion thought profoundly, the article analyzes the utilization of proportion in design through massive classical cases, in order to perform in present's study and project work.