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Le Corbusiers Modulora fundamental work in the history of architectureas a beautiful facsimile edition.
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Architecture foundation stones,
This review is from: The Modulor and Modulor 2 (Paperback)
The basis of this book is a must for a basic understanding of architecture - simply it explains the origins of scale - the basic principle of human interaction with building. The modular is the human composition which determines the design of architecture, in relation to form and scale. A must for aspiring students and a nice reminder for practising architects.
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After a brief struggle, Fibonacci defeats everyone from Pythagoras to Penrose,
By BrentL "brentl" (Abersychan, Wales) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Modulor and Modulor 2 (Paperback)
I bought The Modulor after this book (The Elements of Typographic Style), talking about page layout, aroused my curiosity, particularly about the relation between mathematics and page layout.As a mathematician, my expectations were, of course, never to be fulfilled. The tense relationship between the irrational Golden Section and the integers of the Fibonacci series was never meant to be resolved at the resolutions at which Le Corbusier works. But as an artist, I found it to be a useful and stimulating tool. Le Corbusier, with a certain amount of what could be described as mathematical insouciance, doesn't mind stretching arithmetic precision by five percent or so, nor adding or subtracting the odd unit, in order to achieve an aesthetic balance. Treading carefully between the quotes that seemed frequently to be mere self-affirmation, I found, nonetheless, the history of Le Corbusier's work interesting, and the Modulor itself a fascinating and useful tool. Undoubtedly a strange book, but, for me, worth the read
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Le Corbusier's Modulor l and ll,
By Samuel C. Cavallaro - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Modulor and Modulor 2 (Paperback)
The books arrived well packaged and on time. The books however were a little smaller than what I anticipated since the last time I reviewed these same books was at a local library, but nevertheless I was impressed that the books did come in a compacted design. For what better way to show off the design tool called the Modulor by placeing a picture of it on it's very own jacket that comes with the books. You feel as if the whole box set is some sort of handy carpenters tape measure to carry 'round with you.The inside of the book is full of explanatory remarks about perfecting, creating and applying this human scale ruler which incorporates the practical use of what is termed the Golden Section and thereby adhereing it to his/your own building designs. For those of you who are avid Golden Ratio/Section seekers these two books are a great gift idea and a great collectors item.The books also include many letters too from his colleagues who critique and sometimes try to disprove his modular idea, that it really works.I have included pictures to show you the overall appearance of both books and its smart jacket design. Therefore I say an excellant choice and would recommend to college students, Architects, and all those versed in the Arts in general
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Ambitious,
By W. M. Campbell - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Modulor and Modulor 2 (Paperback)
Le Corbusier fans and students know the couragous contributions this great architect gave the world. Le Modulor is the tool with which he created his great works and belived that this tool is accessable to all. A tool that assists the designer to ensure proportion is always (if not most of the time) correct, true, and beautiful. Le Modular addresses the philosophy behind the tool and discusses the usablity of the tool.
Another excellent book is "Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition" by Kimberly Elam. It is short on words, adequate on images, and terrific at explaining in an elemental way the use of proportioning tools. 1 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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A bit of history...,
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This review is from: The Modulor and Modulor 2 (Paperback)
Le Corbusier had been working for some time on his Modulor system using these French decimal measurements but without much success. Then one of his collaborators, Py, said: "Isn't the height we are working with rather a French height? Have you ever noticed that in English detective novels the hero is always six feet tall?" Le Corbusier continues: " We then applied this standard. To our delight, the graduations of a new Modulor, based on a man six feet tall, translated themselves into round figures in feet and inches". (hardly surprising when you consider that this is a natural system of measure.).
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