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Design Proportion is the  harmonious relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to quantity or degree.

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Modulus & Scale of Proportion in Le Corbusier's Villa Design

Definition of design proportion

Utopias are ‘invisible cities’, imagined perfect places, idealized states of possibility, envisioned in the minds of designers and writers like ltalo Calvino. The term was first used as the name of an imaginary island by Sir Thomas More in his book published in 1516. In More’s dream, Utopian islanders were governed by a perfect political and social system – a system later given a new and anatomical twist in George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1949).

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