Le Corbusier - Le Modulor. Essai sur une mesure harmonique -
Le Corbusier - Le Modulor. Essai sur une mesure harmonique à l'échelle humaine applicable universellement à l'architecture et à la mécanique - Boulogne sur Seine, Éditions de l'architecture d'aujourd'hui, . Collection Ascoral, III section B, normalisation et construction, Volume pp., 100 ills. - sewn, cardboard dust jacket - dim. cm.Condition: good; dust jacket with some wear on the edges; at the top of the spine a piece of 1 cm is missing (restored; interior intact and clean, no annotations, stamps or stripes (apart from a previous owner’s name in ink on endpaper).The Modulor is an anthropometric scale of architectural proportions devised by the architect Le Corbusier in . The purpose of the Modulor is to find a mathematical approach to the human scale in order to adapt buildings to human dimensions. Le Corbusier started from the sizes of modern man; in the first draft he used a standard length of 1.75 m. These sizes constitute a geometric range of sizes, of which the mutual proportions are based on the golden section. The first construction project in which this scheme was applied was the ‘Cité radieuse’ in Marseille. The most outstanding example is the monastery of Sainte-Marie de la Tourette, in which each cell is 2.26 m high and 1.83 m wide. Read More