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A SCAL AR CO MPARISO N

On these two pages are architectural structures from various
historic periods and places drawn to the same or similar scale. Our
perception of how big something or someplace is is always relative
to its context and to the size of what we are familar with, such as
the length of a Boeing 747 airliner.

Yingxian Timber Pagoda, China, 1056

Empire State Building, New York City, 1931,
Shreve, Lamb and Harmon

Plan of Civic Center, Isfahan, Capital of Persia, 1628

Stonehenge, c. 1800 B.C.

Shwezigon Pagoda, Pagan, near Nyangu, Burma, 1058

Temple of Amun at Karnak, Egypt, c. 1500–323 B.C.

Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, USA, begun c. A.D. 920
Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza, Egypt, c. 2500 B.C.

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Villa Farnese, Caprarola, Italy, 1559–60, Giacomo Vignola