Author: LE CORBUSIER.
Title: The modulor. A harmonious measure to the human scale universally applicable to architecture and mechanics. [Vol. 1]. [2nd English edition].
Description: London, Faber and Faber Limited, [1956]. 243 pp. 100 b./w. figs. Orig. hardcover (gray cloth printed with black and red), d./j. Small square 8vo. - Dust jacket with some a bit damaged (few tears); owner's name in ink on inner flap of dust jacket.Translated into English by Peter De Francia and Anna Bostock. - First English edition of the first volume was published by Faber and Faber Limited in 1954. A second volume followed in 1958. - - 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 and the metric systems. It is based on the height of a man with his arm raised. Modulor considered the standard human height as 1.75 m, excluding feminine measures. The dimensions were refined with overall height of raised arm set at 2.26 m. It was used as a system to explain a number of Le Corbusier's buildings and was later codified in two books, the first part of which we offer here. [Source: Wikipedia].

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