1. Le Corbusier
The Modular

2. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier
He was born in Switzerland.
October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was a Swiss-French architect
Architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer
One of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

3. Hello everyone. I’m going to talk about Le Corbusier’s life and The Modular system.
Le Corbusier was one of the most creative, bold, and controversial architects of the twentieth century. He also wrote passionately and powerfully about the nature and configuration of the modern city, thereby making him a pioneer in the field of urban planning.
One of his teachers was Charles L’Éplattenier, who encouraged him in the direction of architecture and advised him to travel extensively.
During these travels, especially along the Mediterranean, that he learned much about light, nature, and form.
By the end of World War I, Le Corbusier was once again in Paris, eventually becoming a French citizen in 1930.
Le Corbusier  was a founding member of the Congrès international d'architecture moderne (CIAM).

4. Le Corbusier described the Modular as a “range of harmonious measurements to suit the human scale, universally applicable to architecture and to mechanical things.”

5. After French Revolution foot-and-inch system did away and then a new system was invented: the meter, forty-millionth part of the meridian of the earth.
Society accepted to the meter system.
A half centuries later, there were two groups people around the world: meter users, foot-and-inch users.
The meter system divisible into half meters and quarter meters, decimeter, etc. but the foot-and-inch system comes from human body. So, it can not divisible.

6. Le Corbusier explains the organisation of structures with regulating lines and it can be provided just geometrical shapes. It can show the beauty of buildings with regulating lines and geometry.
“.. In architecture, regulating lines; painting as well. You can acquire such mastery in this plastic mathematics that you are freed from having to make calculations and diagrams; your hand automatically performs them. ..' Le Corbusier

7. Regulating lines help to analytical visualization of facades and visual harmony.
Thanks to regulating lines, analyzing facades of the buildings possible in a geometrical sense.
Le Corbusier foresaw that the proportional grid would become a universal norm within the construction praxis. The proportional grid is based on a hypothetical male body framed with measures by the aid of successive squares and the golden section.

8. Le Corbusier explicitly used the golden ratio in his modular system for the scale of architectural proportion.
He saw this system as a continuation of the long tradition of Vitruvius, Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvius man, the work of Leon Battista Alberti.

9. The system based on these aspects:  
Proportions of the human body
The Fibonacci numbers
(1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13)
The golden ratio 
 Vitruvius’ Vitruvian 
Man

10. Le Corbusier based the system on human measurements, Fibonacci numbers, and the double unit.
A fibocacci spiral created by drawing circular arcs connecting the opposite corners of squares in the Fibonacci tiling; this uses squares of sizes 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and 34.

11. The basic grid consists of three measures; 113, 70 and 43 centimeters, propostioned according to the Golden Section.
43+70=113
113+70=183
=226(2x113)
113, 183 and 226 define the space occupied by the human figure.
From 113 and 226, Le corbusier developed the Red and Blue series, diminished scles of dimensions that were related to te sature of the human figure.

12. Blue series are the height of the man in the position of raising one arm. (2.16 m in the original version, 2.26 m in the revised)
Red series figure's navel height (1.08 m in the original version, 1.13 m in the revised)
Le Corbusier developed two vertical measurements, the red series and the blue series, which are descending scales related to the height of the human figure.

13. UNITE D' HABITATION, MARSEILLE, FRANCE, 1952
Le Corbusier developed this grid using a proportional measurement system based on his Modulor Man
A concept that combined the proportions of a six foot tall human figure with the mathematics of the golden section.
UNITE D' HABITATION, MARSEILLE, FRANCE, 1952

14. The uneven spacing of the vertical concrete mullions, or ondulatoires, and the similar divisions and uneven spacing of the horizontal components between them were fashioned according to the Modular system of proportions of Le Corbusier.
Couvent Sainte-Marie de la Tourette, Eveux-sur-l'Arbresle, France, 1953

15. Couvent Sainte-Marie de la Tourette, Eveux-sur-l'Arbresle, France, 1953