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Count in widths

Pick one unit you can see — a door, a brick, a bay — and walk it across the facade before you draw a single window.

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Choose a module
The door is a good one because you know it in your body. Everything else on the elevation is some number of doors wide, or a clear fraction.
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Walk it
In the studio you hold a pencil at arm's length. Here, stack the door's width across the front until you hit the corner. Count out loud.
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Then draw
Windows fall on the count. If a window lands between units, that is a fact about the building, not a failure of the grid.

Critique

You named the unit before counting
The count reaches the corner exactly when the facade does
You could repeat the count on a building outside

Eye height at a door

Drill

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Still short of the corner. Add another door width.