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The Modulor is issued as an industrial proportion scale to standardise housing dimensions across Unité and later works

The 1948 Modulor offered a Fibonacci-ish scale for rooms, sills, and Unité sections, a personal SI of the atelier. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Industrial-Policy Activism.

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The 1948 Modulor offered a Fibonacci-ish scale for rooms, sills, and Unité sections, a personal SI of the atelier. He did not replace the metric law. Split from the rights row on the male silhouette. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (opens in a new tab) (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Context

Five Points were 1920s industrial rules for villas; Modulor is postwar housing measure. Chandigarh’s buildings use related scales. Later ISO ergonomics are not 1948. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (opens in a new tab) (Fondation Le Corbusier).

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Why it matters

A housing measuring standard is an industrial path. High confidence on 1948. The exclusionary body is the other row.

Shared responsibility is part of The Modulor is issued as an industrial proportion scale to standardise housing dimensions across Unité and later works. 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.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Le Corbusier

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    He authored the scale and applied it at Marseille and elsewhere. Builders used the red/blue series. Direct as author of a measuring standard.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactThe Modulor is issued as an industrial proportion scale to standardise housing dimensions across Unité and later works
    2. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 January 1948 · verified

Evidence

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Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Le CorbusierEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Fondation Le Corbusier — English portalFondation Le Corbusier · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Fondation Le Corbusier independently presents Modulor. Britannica independently mentions the proportion system in the late work. MoMA independently holds Modulor objects. No unique 1948 factory-adoption series is invented.

Established: 1948 Modulor as his industrial scale. Not established: a unique productivity series. Split from rights. Not 1955 as a second system.

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

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

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Split path: industrial standard here; male-body exclusion on the rights row. Mixed effects of The Modulor is issued as an industrial proportion scale to standardise housing dimensions across Unité and later works are separate paths.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorLe Corbusier
  2. contributed toFactThe Modulor is issued as an industrial proportion scale to standardise housing dimensions across Unité and later works
  3. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

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Factrail. (2026). The Modulor is issued as an industrial proportion scale to standardise housing dimensions across Unité and later works. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/lc-modulor-industrial

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