In Proportions and Cognition in Architecture and Urban Design,
practicing architects, historians, and theoreticians discuss the
proportional systems that juxtapose aesthetic judgements, forms of
practice, and human and social bodies with the norms and ideals that
have resulted from these relationships. They retrace the history of
these proportional systems, the expectations with which they were
associated, how they were introduced into design, and how contemporary
practice builds upon this tradition-or allows new interpretations to
unfold.