Written by Le Corbusier, a Swiss born French architect, Le Modular is an anthropometric scale of proportion. In his article, it is based on the height of a man standing with his arm raise and was developed as a visual representative of two incompatible scales, the imperial and metric system. It was also meant to be a universal system of proportion to reconcile maths, the human form, architecture and beauty into a single system.
The "Modular Man" is segmented into something like a grid system according to the ''Golden Ratio'', with appoximately a ratio of 1.61. Le Corbusier started from an assumed standard size of the human body and marked three intervals that are in the approximate proportions of the Golden Ratio. These segments can be scaled up or down. This system provides useful measurements in the form of door and window openings, cities development, and even in industry and mechanics according to Le Corbusier.
In addition ''The Modular'' system resolve the issue between the Imperial users as well as the Metric users. Le Corbusier succeeded in combining human body measurements with the foot-based Anglo-Saxon measurement system and the metric decimal system.
The Modulor represents the most significant modern attempt to give architecture a mathematical order oriented to the measure of man. The basic idea is to embody harmonious proportions and a design philosophy according to which buildings derive from the human needs of the inhabitants.
Written by: Chua Chyi Shyan 1001542549
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