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modulor|ˈmɒdjuːlə(r)|
[Fr.]
A scale with initial dimensions of 7 feet 5 inches (226 cm.) and 3 feet 9 inches (114·3 cm.), devised by the French architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, called Le Corbusier (1887–1965), based on the proportions of a human figure six feet tall, and intended to be used for the co-ordinated design of buildings, their contents, and their surroundings. Also attrib.
1948M. Ghyka in Archit. Rev. Feb. 39 Le Corbusier's Modulor, and the concept of the Golden Mean... The Modulor is a linear scale in the form of a tape. Its object is to provide a means by which practical realization may be given to the need for efficiency and harmony in the dimensioning of objects and their containers, in architectural design and in town-planning... The Modulor differs from such a [conventional] scale in that the markings on it are related to each other by the principle of the Golden Mean. 1954De Francia & Bostock tr. Le Corbusier's Modulor 55 The necessities of language demanded that the golden rule should be given a name. Of several possible words, the modulor was chosen... The ‘Modulor’ is a measuring tool based on the human body and on mathematics. 1962Listener 27 Sept. 472/1 The modulor which he [sc. Le Corbusier] invented..seemed to have served this purpose. It..forced him to develop the shell from the inside in several stages, starting with the modulor as the smallest unit. Ibid. 472/2 His faithful students soon learned to assemble their modulor units to very much the same buildings they had designed before. 1964J. Summerson Classical Lang. Archit. vi. 46 It was not till the early years of World War II that le Corbusier created the system..which he has called the ‘Modulor’. 1972Times 30 Nov. (Books Suppl.) p. ii/5 Furneaux Jordan quotes the story of how Corbusier's six foot ‘modulor’ was chosen because he had heard that the ‘good-looking man’ in English detective novels..is always six feet tall. |
