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Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris, MONDADORI PORTFOLIO/RUE DES ARCHIVES/MICHEL SIMA
better known as Le Corbusier, revolutionised
the modern approach to architecture
and urbanistics. Here above, in front of the
“modulor”, a scale of proportions based
on the measurements of man which he invented
“to apply it universally to architecture
and mechanical things and satisfy the human
dimensions,” drawing inspiration
on Vitruvius and Leonardo da Vinci.
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