Modulor
Sign in to savethumbnail|Commemorative Swiss coin showing the modulor. The Modulor is an anthropometric scale of proportions devised by the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965).
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- History
- Promotion
- Graphic representation
- Practical application
- Unité d'Habitation à Marseille
- Church of Sainte Marie de La Tourette
- Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
- Unite d'Habitation a Berlin.
- Publication
- Commemorative usage
- See also
- Citations
- References
- External links
thumbnail|Commemorative Swiss coin showing the modulor. The Modulor is an anthropometric scale of proportions devised by the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965).
It was developed as a visual bridge between two incompatible scales, the Imperial and the metric systems. It is based on the height of a man with his arm raised. The Modulor deemed the standard human height to be , excluding feminine measures. The dimensions were refined with overall height of raised arm set at .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Modulor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.