ABSTRACT
Scale seems to be such a commonplace in an architect's armoury that it is very much taken for granted. And yet, if you are an architect, cast your mind back to your first week at architecture school, when you were turning that much-calibrated tool, the scale rule, in your hands, as if it were part of some masonic ritual. Or, if you never trained as an architect, you might have pondered the inscrutability of statements concerning a design being ‘in scale’ with its particular context. Scale seems to be more pertinent to the plastic arts, so that the intentional ordinariness of the embracing lovers in The Meeting Point (Paul Day, 2007) beneath the clock at St Pancras Station, London becomes banal owing to the giant size of the sculpture.
