2. BIOGRAPHY
NAME- Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris,who was better known as Le Corbusier
BORN- October 6, 1887
DIED- August 27, 1965
EDUCATION- Studied at La-Chaux-de-Fonds Art School
AWARD-1.Royal Gold Medal, AIA Gold Medal
3. Le Corbusier explicitly used the golden ratio in
hisModular system for the scale of architectural
proportion.
Le Corbusier based the system on
humanmeasurements, Fibonacci numbers, and
the double unit
He took Leonardo's suggestion of the golden
ratio inhuman proportions to an extreme:
PHILOSOPHY
4. THE MODULAR
THE MODULAR WAS A SYSTEM OF
PROPORTIONINGWORKED OUT BY
LE CORBUSIERESSENTIALLY THE
MODULAR IS A SERIES OF PROPORTIONS
NOT UNLIKE THE GOLDEN SECTION USED BY
ANCIENT GREEKS.
BASED ON THE MEASUREMENTS OF A SIX-
FOOT MAN IN VARIOUS POSITIONS, STANDING ,
SITTING, LYING DOWN ETC.
TWO SERIES OF MEASUREMENTS
WERE DEVELOPED,
THE ONE DERIVED FROM A STANDING FIGURE, THE OTHER FROM A FIGURE
WITH AN ARM UPRAISED.
