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Modulor
Le Corbusier’s scale of proportions (1948): a red series growing by the golden ratio from 183 cm and a blue series of its doubles, derived from a human figure.
Rules that use the word
The Modulor: two golden series. Size everything from a single scale: a red series in which each measure is φ times the one before, anchored on a man 183 cm tall, and a blue series of its doubles, anchored on his raised hand at 226 cm.
The Modulor. Take the height of a man (183 cm) and of his raised hand (226 cm) and divide each by the golden section, again and again, to obtain two interlocking series of dimensions for every part of a building.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters Proportion and Number, The Modern Movement, Reading the Treatises.
Nearby in the glossary
Minbar · Mingjian · Modillion · Module · Mokoshi · Monopteros · Moon gate · Mortise and tenon