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Abstract
In architecture, measurements express quantity and quality; they constitute the indispensable tool for developing the project: they govern the site and, above all, dimension the parts that form the building. Yet measurement, sometimes, can be an indefinable term, not regulated by a single and universal reference; it can vary, even greatly, and not be expressed by a quantity. It can take an autonomous value, suitable for describing a specific solution, a model, a type or a design idea. That, corresponding to a form, planimetric or volumetric, embodies the character of a repeatable module, a sort of primary element of the composition which, in many cases, can summarize the principle of the structural system. The unit of measurement, thus interpreted and synthesized, can be led to the concept of atom: an indivisible part of matter which, only by summation, generates more complex parts until the whole is reached.