The Dressing Room of the San Diego Temple and its Symbolic Geometry

Abstract

This article is written with two objectives. First, to find the rational pattern or structure of harmonic proportioning behind the beauty of the monument. Second, embed that rational pattern within the specific historical conditions of its production, accounting for the architectural object as a total and significant cultural product. The conclusions of this article give an opportunity to show that the Dressing Room of the San Diego Temple constitutes an extraordinary monument not only because it is probably the last of its kind, but because of its conception itself, the idea and fundamental principles of a symbolic order that its constructor was able to translate through a system of octagenic and dinergic proportion, explainable only by the conditions of the Novohispanic world.