The Historical Transition of Human Body in Architecture

This article focuses on the subject of drawing the human figure within architectural drawings. In most architectural drawings, human figures help to provide simple and clear indications of scale or an adequate sense of depth. These scaled figures, however, need not be metric and are used to help project some of the incommensurable qualities of architecture. Silhuettes in architectural drawings can help show how designed buildings might be perceived and inhabited. They can also be used to understand how architecture can be modeled to welcome human experiences and actions. This research is developed by comparing drawings by different architects, where differences in the form and activity of the body can be highlighted. Architects and designers represent human figures to emphasize space, to describe the spatial properties of a drawing, and to convey their ideologies as a reference for understanding the human physical condition.