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By Le Corbusier

Publish yr note: First released in 1950 and 1955 respectively
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In the years 1942 to 1948, Le Corbusier constructed a process of measurements which turned often called "Modulor."

Based at the Golden part and Fibonacci numbers and likewise utilizing the actual dimensions of the common human, Modulor is a chain of measurements which Le Corbusier used to accomplish concord in his architectural compositions.

Le Modulor was once released in 1950 and after assembly with good fortune, Le Corbusier went directly to post Modulor 2 in 1955. in lots of of Le Corbusier's such a lot amazing constructions, together with the Chapel at Ronchamp and the Unite d'habitation, proof of his Modulor approach will be visible.

These volumes shape an enormous and imperative a part of Le Corbusier's theoretical writings.

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Th e reader should try to imagine the circumstances in which this work was done. The Germans were in Paris. People were either away altogether or could only meet with difficulty. In the wretched atmosphere of occupied Paris, an argument on architecture between professionals was a diffi cult matter indeed. A new law obliged me to submit my candidature to the Order of Architects created by the Vichy Govern ment at th e end of 1940. My application remained under examination by the Order for a full fourteen months, until the moment when English guns could already be heard at Versailles (summer of 1944) .

It will be necessary to create huge transport systems to make these suburbs accessible and mutually connected: railways, underground railways, trams, buses, etc . . ) . What boundless activity, what wealth this will bring! so? es etaient blanches, Pion 1 936. 52 in Mr Kaiser's ear, no one may even dream of calling a halt to his activities, no machinery is set on foot to channel his indomitable energy towards social and economic ends . . And then it so happens that after six months of cogitation, when all is said and done, Mr Kaiser decides, quite off his own bat, that he is not going to make houses after all, but motor cars.

Consequently, the man with left arm upraised and right hand con- rcealed will disengage that hand and rest it on a point 86 em. above the base. --,l-+--+777> space by the human figure will be fixed. And here, twenty years after Matila Ghyka first wrote of it (1927) (The Aesthetics of Proportions in Nature and the Arts), is the mani­ festation of the TRIAD-solar plexus, head, tip of fingers and upraised arm-and of the DUALITY: solar plexus and tip of fingers, a twofold reality and a limitless one, the triad in the red series, the duality in the blue series of the •Modulor'.

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