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Design Principles in Architecture


  • Symmetry
  • Contrast
  • Repetition
  • Emphasis
  • Scale & Proportion
  • Hierarchy

Elements on either side of the axis are arranged similarly

Lotus Temple,  New Delhi, India

Contrasts with the surrounding buildings with its organic shape while Manhattan city follow grid and geometric forms

Guggenheim Museum, New York

Elements being copied or mimicked numerous times. 


Geisel Library,   California


Sydney Opera House


Breaking the visual hierarchy by using Color, Form or Size to Emphasis or Highlight some thing.

Dancing House, Prague


Proportion refers to the proper and harmonious relation of one part to another or to the whole, while scale refers to the size of something compared to a reference standard or to the size of something else.

Heydar Aliyev Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan

To direct the viewer's eyes to specific parts of a structure. It's a way to establish a guiding visual element for a structure by manipulating the viewer's experience. 
Variety of factors to establish hierarchy, Size, color, shape, Location and Contrast.

Humayun’s Tomb, Delhi


































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