The Golden Section

It is a proportioning system
that governs the relationship
of smaller parts to the whole.
Fibonacci number is used to
approximate the Golden
section
The ratio is
AB:BC=BC:AC=1:1.618
For Example:
Parthenon in Greece
 In human body
Modular
Le Corbusier's created his own
proportioning system which is
called the modular.
He use the golden section in
his modular system for the
scale of architectural scale.
Le Corbusier bridged the
relationship between the
Imperial System (e.g. inch and
feet) and the Metric System
(e.g. millimetre and metre) by
providing a system which
takes the heights and
proportions of the human
form as a universal standard.
The system is based on the
human body in different
gestures.
The Modular is
anthropometric scale of
proportion based on the
height of the English man with
his arm raise.

Ken
Japanese unit of measurement
is shanku and ken like feet
and inches.
In ancient China, the space
between two pillars was
called ken and that is how this
unit came to be used to
designate the distance
between pillars.
For this reason, even today
after the adoption of the
metric system, ken is a
familiar term in Japanese
architecture as the underlying
basis for the dimensions of
household fittings and tatami
mats.
A square with sides of 1 ken is
called 1 tsubo and is used as a
unit of area to indicate the
size of houses and land. In
Japanese stage art, too, ken is
used as a unit to represent
the width and depth of the
stage, which has its roots in
kabuki.
The exact value of Ken has
varied over time and location
but has generally been a little
shorter than 2 meters (6 ft
7 in). It is now standardized
as 1 9/11 meter.
Two methods of designing the
Ken modular method:
Inaka-ma method
The ken grid of 6 shaku
determined the centre-to-
centre spacing of columns.
Therefore, the standard
tatami floor mat (3 x ^ shaku
or x 1 ken) varied slightly
to allow for the thickness of
the columns.
Kyo-ma method
The floor mat remained
constant (3.15 x 6.30 shaku)
and the column spacing (ken
module) varied according to
the size of the room and
ranged from 6.4 to 6.7 shaku.