Today, there is a consensus that a work of art should be understood as an organism: whether one views the human figure anthropomorphically as the normative measure for the art form, thus placing beauty solely in the subject, or whether one designates the work of art itself as organized without delving deeply into the ultimate epistemological questions, thereby attributing beauty to the object itself. In his current work, Fritz Hoeber addresses the systematics of proportions in architecture. He begins with a brief overview of the history of mathematical and anthropomorphic systems in architectural theoretical endeavors. He thoroughly explains the systematics of architectural proportions and the various models and their calculations. This book is an unaltered reprint.