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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811235403321

Autore

Le Corbusier <1887-1965.>

Titolo

The modulor : a harmonious measure to the human scale, universally applicable to architecture and mechanics / / by Le Corbusier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel ; ; Boston : , : Birkhäuser, , [2000]

©2000

ISBN

3-0356-0409-6

Descrizione fisica

1 recurso en línea (580 p.)

Disciplina

729/.23

Soggetti

Modular coordination (Architecture)

Ratio and proportion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Facsimile reprint of the original edition from 1954 (vol. 1), 1958 (vol. 2) with title: Le modulor.

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION -- Modulor I -- CONTENTS -- TO THE READER -- PART I. SETTING THE STAGE THE BACKGROUND AND THE NATURE OF THE SEARCH -- Chapter 1. Preamble -- Chapter 2. Chronological Review -- Chapter 3. Mathematics -- PART 2. PRACTICAL REALITIES -- Chapter 4. The Position of the Modulor in the Present Time -- Chapter 5. First Instances of Application -- Chapter 6. A Simple Tool -- PART 3. APPENDIX -- Chapter 7. Concrete Verifications and Goda -- Chapter 8. Documents and Information in Plenty: Let the User Speak Next -- Front matter 2 -- CONTENTS -- Part One. LET THE USER SPEAK NEXT -- Chapter 1. Preliminaries -- Chapter 2. Testimony 1. Appraisals 2. Discussion 3. Practical applications of the Modular -- Chapter 3. Divergencies -- Part Two. TOOL -- Chapter 4. Reflection 1. Far from the taboos 2. On solid ground 3. Man III suffered from blindness 4. let us rise higher -- Chapter 5. 35 rue de Sevres -- Chapter 6. Numeration -- EPILOGUE -- Appendix Good-humoured soliloquy -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Faksimile-Ausgabe eines Grundlagenwerkes der Architekturgeschichte

In the years 1942 to 1948, Le Corbusier developed a system of measurements which became known as "Modulor". Based on the Golden



Section and Fibonacci numbers and also using the physical dimensions of the average human, Modulor is a sequence of measurements which Le Corbusier used to achieve harmony in his architectural compositions. Le Modulor was published in 1950 and after meeting with success, Le Corbusier went on to publish Modulor 2 in 1955. In many of Le Corbusier s most notable buildings, including the Chapel at Ronchamp and the Unité d habitation, evidence of his Modulor system can be seen. These two volumes form an important and integral part of Le Corbusier's theoretical writings.