Modulor is a anthropometric scale proportions designed by Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier in France (1887-1965). It was developed as a bridge between two incompatible visual scale, the Imperial and metric systems. It is based on the height of an English man with his hand raised. It has been used as a system to express a number of Le Corbusier buildings and then encoded into the two books.
Le Corbusier's developed the Modulor in a long tradition of Vitruvius, Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, the work of Leone Battista Alberti, and others try to discover the mathematical proportion in the human body and then to use that knowledge to improve both the appearance and function-art building. This system is based on a human scale, double unit, number of Fibonacci and golden ratio. Le Corbusier described it as "range of harmonious measurements to suit the human scale, universally applicable to architecture and to mechanical things." With the Modulor, Le Corbusier tried to introduce a visual scale measures that will unify the two systems is incompatible systems: Anglo-Saxon foot and inches and metric system of French. Despite his interest in ancient civilization used to measure system associated with the human body: elbow (cubits), fingers (digits), thumb (inches) and others, he was troubled by the metre as a measure that was a forty-millionth part of the meridian of the earth.
Modulor graphic representation the number of people treated with one of the branches were raised, standing next to two sizes uprise, one red siri central figures based on height (1.08m in the original version, 1.13m in the revised version) and then segmented according to Phi, and a blue series figures based on overall height, double the height of the navel (2.16m in the original version, 2.26m in the revised), segmented same. A spiral, the graphically was developed between red and blue segments, as if to mimic the volume of the human figure.
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