# Le Corbusier publishes the Modulor, a man-with-arm-raised measuring system that universalises one male body as housing scale

Date: 1948

## The fact

In 1948 [Le Corbusier](/people/le-corbusier) issued The Modulor, a red-and-blue scale from a 1.83 m (later 6-foot) man with arm raised, to govern Unité and other works. He did not measure every occupant. Split from the industrial-standard improving row of the same book. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) at https://www.moma.org/artists/3426 (Museum of Modern Art).

## Context

Charlotte Perriand’s furniture bodies are another atelier. Later feminist and disability critiques of the Modulor man are reception. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) at https://www.moma.org/artists/3426 (Museum of Modern Art).

## Evidence and sources

Fondation Le Corbusier independently presents Modulor as his proportion system. MoMA independently collects Modulor objects and books. Britannica independently mentions the system. No unique exclusion census is invented. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) at https://www.moma.org/artists/3426 (Museum of Modern Art).

Official or archival record: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal (https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/; Fondation Le Corbusier).

## Significance

A famous male module as ‘the’ human is a rights path of modest size. Medium confidence. Later inclusive-design codes are not 1948. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) at https://www.moma.org/artists/3426 (Museum of Modern Art).

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1948 Modulor as his. Not established: a unique harm series. Split from the industrial row. Not 1955 Modulor 2 as a second doctrine-Fact — one system. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: MoMA — Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) at https://www.moma.org/artists/3426 (Museum of Modern Art).

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. The industrial-measure improving path of Modulor is a separate Fact. Mixed effects of Le Corbusier publishes the Modulor, a man-with-arm-raised measuring system that universalises one male body as housing scale are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is [protection-of-minority-rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Le Corbusier publishes the Modulor, a man-with-arm-raised measuring system that universalises one male body as housing scale. Naming Le Corbusier does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1948-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Le Corbusier: https://factrail.ai/people/le-corbusier

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.moma.org/artists/3426
- https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/lc-modulor-body-standard