Cánovas develops scale as a historical, perceptual and political operation rather than a numerical ratio between representation and object. His iconic proposition is that architectural dimension becomes meaningful through bodily rhythm, memory, ritual, hierarchy and recurring formal references. The theoretical contribution lies in separating size from scale: size is measurable, whereas scale arises from the relation between form, observer, cultural expectation and social order. Methodologically, the thesis constructs an archaeology through Villa Adriana, the Pantheon, Roman forums, domestic interiors, landscapes, treatises and images of the gigantic, moving between visual analysis, historical interpretation and architectural experience. The conceptual operation is dimensional activation, showing how architecture converts quantity into authority, intimacy, estrangement or collective representation. The wider bridge reaches phenomenology, architectural history, political iconography and design theory. Scale appears as an active mediator that allows built form to organise perception and social relations across body, house, city and imagined universe.
