The lithography (edited by Heidi Weber in 1962) contains the dedication: Friend of the Modulor, search for yourself, invent, discover... bring your inventions, they will be useful. Thank you, friend. Paris 20.02.56 Le Corbusier
Reference: Heidi Weber Collection
The Modulor was Le Corbusier's most important theme. It continued into his late work and thus in the graphic works.
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Industrialist Jean-Jacques Duval entrusted to Le Corbusier, in July 1946, the reconstruction of his hosiery, founded in 1908, destroyed two thirds in November 1944. The architect took this opportunity to realize a "green factory" Standards of the Radiant City and the Charter of Athens.
Le Corbusier realizes here a fully calculated construction at Modulor, functional, 20% cheaper than a traditional construction. The factory is rebuilt on its original site near the ruined cathedral. Le Corbusier is designing a project that is attached to one of the old workshops on the ground floor level.
The building, 80 meters long and 12.50 meters wide, resembles a small dwelling unit built on stilts, three storeys high and covered with a self-contained roof terrace. The vertical entrance and traffic block is part of a wing rejected in the rear façade. The internal organization meets the constraints of the manufacturing process. The circulation of the cloth and of the pieces of clothing is independent of that of the personnel, it was carried out by hoists and slides removed since.
(2017年7月23日 星期日Le Corbusier,Manufacture in Saint-Dié des Vosges - Usine Duval)
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I had found it myself, again and again, in many measurements taken during my voyages ('Modulor 1', pages 205, 208, 202, 198, 197, 194, etc.). M. Guettard had already said to me, mysteriously: '
The brightest minds of the past century. Le Corbusier and Albert Einstein at Princeton, 1946
“I had the pleasure of discussing the ‘Modulor’ at some length with Professor Albert Einstein at Princeton. I was then passing through a period of great uncertainty and stress, I expressed myself badly, I explained the ‘Modulor’ badly, I got bogged down in the morass of ‘cause and effect’… At one point Einstein took a pencil and began to calculate. Stupidly, I interrupted him, the conversation turned to other things, the calculation remained unfinished. (Modulor 1, page 58)
“I had the pleasure of discussing the ‘Modulor’ at some length with Professor Albert Einstein at Princeton. I was then passing through a period of great uncertainty and stress, I expressed myself badly, I explained the ‘Modulor’ badly, I got bogged down in the morass of ‘cause and effect’… At one point Einstein took a pencil and began to calculate. Stupidly, I interrupted him, the conversation turned to other things, the calculation remained unfinished. (Modulor 1, page 58)
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