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

Date: 1948

## The fact

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](/people/le-corbusier) — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (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/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is [industrial-policy-activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

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. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

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

## Significance

A housing measuring standard is an industrial path. High confidence on 1948. The exclusionary body is the other row. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

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.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1948 Modulor as his industrial scale. Not established: a unique productivity series. Split from rights. Not 1955 as a second system. Archival locator: Fondation Le Corbusier — English portal at https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/ (Fondation Le Corbusier). Independent locator: Britannica — Le Corbusier at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

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.

## People

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

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Le-Corbusier
- https://www.fondationlecorbusier.fr/en/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/lc-modulor-industrial