Le Modulor

Le Modulor is of the popular structure design method which was used to discover mathematical proportions in the human body and then to use that knowledge to improve both the appearance and function of architecture. The Modulor is an anthropometric ruler of sizes devised by the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965).It was industrialized as a visual bridge between two mismatched scales, the Imperial system and the Metric system. It is based on the height of an English man with his arm raised. It was used as a system to set out a number of Le Corbusier's buildings and was later codified into two books.

There many ways a word can express in many way since a design can express by a measurement of concept and content so my concern I like to say that this scaling method is not only way but, this a way of surface similarity between Le Modulor and the ideas of Christopher Alexander as described at, Le Modulor presumes that tuneful design can, must, proceed from a scale of scopes analogous to the scale of tones used in music.

This scale is derived from a sub-Vitruvius, sub-Leonardo analysis of a six-foot high person with one arm above their head, the other hand held at waist height.

Underneath the surface, the contrast with Alexander is stark:

• As I understand it, CA hopes to find out the orders of scale that naturally result in harmonious composition, and these may be different, but related, in different situations.
• Corb has decided that he knows what those orders are, according to an aesthetic of his own, and is determined to apply them universally and rigidly.

“The graphic representation of the Modulor, a stylized human figure with one arm raised, stands next to two vertical measurements, a red series based on the figure's navel height (1.08m in the original version, 1.13m in the revised version) then segmented according to Phi, and a blue series based on the figure's entire height, double the navel height (2.16m in the original version, 2.26m in the revised), segmented similarly. A spiral, graphically developed between the red and blue segments, seems to mimic the volume of the human figure.” By Wikipedia