PHILOSOPHICAL ASSUMPTION IN MEASURING AESTHETICS OF A BUILDING

  • Department Of Architecture, Ramat Polytechnic Maiduguri, Borno State Nigeria.
  • Department Of Architecture, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Kaduna State.
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The quality of being pleasing is aesthetics. The aesthetic of a building vary in responses to human observers, if it partly follows proportion, if there is symmetry of measurement. In this paper we try to explain domains that are not easily quantifiable and thus can be used to communicate information between individual perceptions.

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[Hyeladzira Garba Mshelia, Rakiya Haruna Ibrahim and Alhaji Kasir Lawan. (2017); PHILOSOPHICAL ASSUMPTION IN MEASURING AESTHETICS OF A BUILDING Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jan). 1649-1651] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Hyeladzira Garba Mshelia
Rakiya Haruna Ibrahim, Alhaji Kasir Lawan

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/2931      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/2931

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