Multi-Time Window FFT
If your goal is to plot a magnitude spectrum with the frequency axis on a log scale, but with a roughly even visual resolution along that axis, then a single FFT might provide too low a density of plot points (without interpolation) at low frequencies, and more plot points than can be plotted on a line (without averaging) at high frequencies for a given print or pixel display resolution or smoothness.  If you use different FFT lengths for different octaves or sub-octaves in frequency, and select subsets of the results from each FFT, then you can maintain a lower delta in density of FFT result points when plotted on such a log scale.  How many FFTs you might want to use depends on the maximum variance you want in log frequency resolution of the final joined plot.

However, since the FFTs are of different lengths, then they are for different sets of data.  A sequence of longer FFT windows can be done with larger offsets if more time resolution isn't needed at low frequencies.  You will have the problem of how to join or blend all these different FFT results (usually subset segments of the results) so that the magnitude response might be uniform across FFT boundaries.  In total, you also end up with an overdetermined set of FFT results (but so will highly overlapped windows).

Even better results (in terms of even log frequency plot resolution) might be obtained by using some form of wavelet transform (a Morlet or Gabor wavelet or constant-Q transform, for example) instead of a bunch of semi-redundant FFTs.   

But libraries for optimized FFTs might be more available on some platforms.  Each basis vector of a windowed FFT in a "multi-time" set can be considered a non-optimally-sized wavelet.  So, in some ways, using these so-called "multi-time window" FFTs is a "poor man's" wavelet transform.  But some of the many FFT results might be useful for other forms of more traditional DFT analysis of the signal input (in conjunction with the log plot), thus serving a dual purpose.

A partial psycho acoustic justification for increasing FFT size at lower frequencies (or using wavelets) is that, over a certain mid-frequency range, the human ear/brain takes a length of time to determine frequency or pitch of a sound roughly proportional to the period of the frequency.