Modulor
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The Modulor is an anthropometric scale of proportions devised by the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965).
It was developed as a visual bridge between two incompatible scales, the Imperial system and the Metric system. It is based on the height of an English man with his arm raised.
It was used as a system to set out a number of Le Corbusier's buildings and was later codified into two books.
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See also
- Body proportions
- Rudolf Wittkower
- Vitruvian Man
- Anthropometry
- Ergonomics
- Rule of thumb
- List of strange units of measurement
- Preferred number, especially the section about Renard series, which covers a mathematical approach on evenly distributed numbers using geometric sequences, for use in constructing houses or devices.
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