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- In truth, our perception of the
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- physical dimensions of
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- architecture, of proportion and
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- scale, is imprecise. It is distorted
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- by the foreshortening of
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- perspective and distance, and
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- by cultural biases, and is thus
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- difficult to control and predict in
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- an objective and precise
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- manner.
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- While vertical forms have a
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- greater presence in our visual
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- field than horizontal planes and
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- are more instrumental in defining
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- discrete volumes of space,
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- changes in the horizontal
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- dimension are more difficult to
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- gauge than changes in the
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- vertical height of a space.