TheModulor

leCorbusier

TrisChris/naLiebelt
leCorbusierBackground

BornCharlesEdouardJeannereton06October1887,inLaChauxdeFonds,
Switzerland
AHendedthecoledesArtsatLaChauxdeFonds.Whichhelatertaughtat.
HetraveledextensivelythroughEurope
In1917,heseHledinParisandwroteVersuneArchitecture(TowardsaNew
Architecture)
In1947,hebuiltUnitedhabita/on
In1948,hepublishedTheModulor
In1955,hepublishedTheModulor2
Died27August1965,CapMar/n,France
Inuences

VitruviusVitruvianMan:showshowthebodyispropor/onalusingthegeometry
ofacircleandsquare.
FibonacciSeries:1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34thera/obetweenthenumbersas
theseriescon/nuetheyapproachalimi/ngvalueof1.618or
GoldenSec/on:sidelengthsarethegoldenra/o:1:,or1:1.618.
Ini/alInspira/on

Camefromthechallengeofposi/oningthehumanformwithinthree
interconnectedsquares,Thechallengecameintheplacementofthethirdsquare.
LeCorbusiersolvedtheproblembyusingtherela/onshipofandthe
introduc/onofarightangle
TheModulor

TheModulorisageometrical
proportioninggridbasedonthehuman
form
LeCorbusiercalledtheFibonacci
seriesarisingfromtherelationship
basedontheunit108theredseries,
andthatseriesbasedonthedouble
unit216theblueseries.Idrewamanof
aheightof1.75mengagedatfour
points:zero,108,175,216.Thenthered
stripontheleft,theblueontheright,
theseriesofgoingtowardszero
below,andthatprogressingtowards
innityaboveTheModulor,page52.
TheModulorTools
TheModulorAppliedtotheHumanForm
 TheModulorAppliedtoBuilding
UnitedHabita/on:PlansandSec/ons

Key(meters)
A=.065
B=.165
C=.20
D=.33
E=.43
F=.53
G=.70
H=.86
I=1.13
J=2.26
K=2.98
L=3.36
M=4.19=L+F
 TheModulorAppliedtoBuilding
UnitedHabita/on:Facade

Key(meters)
A=.065
B=.165
C=.20
D=.33
E=.43
F=.53
G=.70
H=.86
I=1.13
J=2.26
K=2.98
L=3.36
M=4.19=L+F
 TheModulorAppliedtoBuilding
UnitedHabita/on:Interiors

Key(meters)
A=.065
B=.165
C=.20
D=.33
E=.43
F=.53
G=.70
H=.86
I=1.13
J=2.26
K=2.98
L=3.36
M=4.19=L+F
TriadApplied
DELIGHT

FIRMNESS COMMODITY
WorkCited

LeCorbusier.TheModulor:AHarmoniousMeasuretotheHumanScale
UniversallyApplicabletoArchitectureandMechanics.Cambridge:
HarvardUniversityPress,1954

Ostwald,MichaelJ.LeCorbusier(CharlesEdouardJeanneret)theModulor
andModulor2.NexusNetworkJournal.Volume3,Number1.2001.
145148.SpringerLink.28October2009.
<http://www.springerlink.com/content/1qr207l820065874/>.

Weston.Plans,SectionsandElevations:KeyBuildingsoftheTwentieth
Century.London:LaurenceKingPublishing,2004.