🗣 Is man a perfect geometric model for architecture?-THE VITRUVIAN MAN

This image of the Vitruvian man from the Renaissance period by Leonardo Da Vinci proves to be one of the most significant artworks that represents and states to be a perfect geometric model for architecture.

'How?' you ask?

In his De Architectura, Vitruvius wrote, "For if a man be placed flat on his back, with his hands and feet extended, and a pair of compasses centered at his navel, the fingers and toes of his two hands and feet will touch the circumference of a circle described therefrom. And just as the human body yields a circular outline, so too a square figure may be found from it." He also states man to be the model of the world. He expressed that a perfect building must be proportioned like the vast precision of a human body-"The ultimate expression of the cosmos itself".

The geometry of the circle and square, which he regarded as the two most perfect shapes in nature, how he came up with it is still a mystery, perhaps a perfect union of art, science and mathematics.

🗣Do you believe that The Vitruvian Man is a perfect geometric model for architecture or do you think that this is just another seed trying to seep through our subconscious, trying to impose a societal standard that looks down upon others that don't "obey" the aesthetics of an "intangible" man made system?

If so, let me know in the comments down below!

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