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1948 In Architecture
The year 1948 in architecture involved some significant events. Events * ''Le Modulor'' by Le Corbusier is published. Buildings and structures Buildings * September 10 – The Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States is dedicated. * December – Carswell House in Newark, Delaware, by Edward Durell Stone, completed. * Mile High Stadium in Denver, Colorado completed. * V. C. Morris Gift Shop (later, Xanadu Gallery) in San Francisco, by Frank Lloyd Wright. * Morannedd Café (later, Dylan's), Criccieth Esplanade, Wales, by Clough Williams-Ellis, built (approximate date). * Mampong Teacher's Training College and Prempeh College, Kumasi, both in Ghana, by Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew. * Burleigh Primary School, Cheshunt, England, by Mary Crowley, opened. * Equitable Building (Portland, Oregon), by Pietro Belluschi, completed. * Holy Family Old Cathedral (Anchorage, Alaska), by Augustine A. Porreca, is completed. * Calvert Manor apartment building in Arlingt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modulor
The Modulor is an anthropometric scale of proportions devised by the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965). It was developed as a visual bridge between two incompatible scales, the Imperial and the metric systems. It is based on the height of a man with his arm raised. Modulor considered the standard human height as 1.75 m, excluding feminine measures. The dimensions were refined with overall height of raised arm set at 2.26 m. It was used as a system to set out a number of Le Corbusier's buildings and was later codified into two books. History Le Corbusier developed the Modulor in the long tradition of Vitruvius, Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, the work of Leon Battista Alberti, and other attempts to discover mathematical proportions in the human body and then to use that knowledge to improve both the appearance and function of architecture. The system is based on human measurements, the double unit, the Fibonacci numbers, and the golden ratio. Le Cor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
