The Modulor and Modulor 2

Very good size if you have a tiny personal library. It came in a nice box

I bought The Modulor after this book (The Elements of Typographic Style), talking about page layout, aroused my curiosity, particularly about the relation between mathematics and page layout.As a mathematician, my expectations were, of course, never to be fulfilled. The tense relationship between the irrational Golden Section and the integers of the Fibonacci series was never meant to be resolved at the resolutions at which Le Corbusier works.But as an artist, I found it to be a useful and stimulating tool. Le Corbusier, with a certain amount of what could be described as mathematical insouciance, doesn't mind stretching arithmetic precision by five percent or so, nor adding or subtracting the odd unit, in order to achieve an aesthetic balance.Treading carefully between the quotes that seemed frequently to be mere self-affirmation, I found, nonetheless, the history of Le Corbusier's work interesting, and the Modulor itself a fascinating and useful tool.Undoubtedly a strange book, but, for me, worth the read

This is very well produced. The slip case is well made and the books are printed on acid-free paper with the layout being the same as older editions.But I have one reservation:The books are small, only 145mm square. They are much smaller than a Faber edition I have of The Modulor from the 1960s.I thought at first that it was a lost opportunity that 145 is not a modulor number, but then discovered that the images printed on the covers are set to 140mm square and 140 is a modulor number.I would have given the books 5 stars if not for the small size and that they feel just a little too expensive, I think.

Good book. Poor value for money

The basis of this book is a must for a basic understanding of architecture - simply it explains the origins of scale - the basic principle of human interaction with building. The modular is the human composition which determines the design of architecture, in relation to form and scale.A must for aspiring students and a nice reminder for practising architects.