Modulor, First Edition (23 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. First edition thus. First softcover edition. Published Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1968, first printing (April, 1968). Square 8vo. wrappers, 7 3/8" x 7 3/8", 336pp., illustrated with b/w reproductions. Previous owner name on fly leaf. Very good.

paperback. Condition: Very good. Square 12mo. 243 pp. Illustrated throughout in B/W. Slightly used copy, clean, unmarked and square.

8° , Broschiert. 241 Seiten. Rücken des Umschlages zeitbedingt leicht vergilbt, innen sauber, insgesamt gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Volume 2 only.Jacket is worn and marked.Tanning.Tightly bound.Due to weight postal adjustments may be required.[RK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

deutsche Erstausgabe, quadr.8°, 341 S. mit zahlreichen teils ganzseitigen s/w-Abbildungen (Fotos, Skizzen, Faksmilies, Grundrisse), farbig illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), Einband geringfügig nachgedunkelt, Rücken mit einem zarten Längsfältchen, Rückdeckel mit kleinem Eckknickchen, kurzer Besitzervermerk auf Titelseite, sonst ein sehr gutes, sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen, ohne Vorbesitzvermerke, ohne Eckknicke etc. Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main (Nordend ggü. Musterschule) möglich. Das spart die Portokosten. Pickup at the store in Frankfurt am Main (Nordend, close to Musterschule) is possible. It saves the shipping costs.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A handsome copy of the 1958 1st UK edition. Tight and Near Fine in its blue cloth, wit black and red titling and design. Very light offsetting at the endsheets, mild bumping at th front panel's tops. Otherwise, sharp as could be. Square 12mo, lacking its dustjacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Collection Ascoral III Section B: Normalisation et Construction, Volume 4. 1st printing (March 1950). 239pp. Paper wraps. FAIR copy, front cover detached otherwise complete and intact, pages well tanned, text clean throughout, in FAIR+ wrapper, edge worn and chipped, spine ends chipped, grubby with some damp staining to front cover, spine darkened, colours still reasonable bright.

Ver. Condition: Ver. Rústica con solapas con bordes del lomo desgastados. Octavo menor. Los usuarios tienen la palabra. Continuación del primer volumen El Modulor 1948. Ilustraciones en blanco y negro. Firma anterior propietario. 1ª edición. 335 pp. Buen estado. Buenos Aires, Editorial Poseidón, 1955. Arte y arquitectura.

1. Auflage.Kl.-8° (nahezu quadratisch). 241 S., mit vielen Abbildungen. Orig.-Broschur. Erste deutsche Ausgabe. - Durchgestrichener Name auf Vorsatz.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST PRINTING OF WHAT CORBU CALLS HIS SOLILOQUY. THIS COPY LACKS THE DUST JACKET BUT WE HAVE SUBSTITUTED A PHOTOCOPY OF THE JACKET FROM MODULOR 1. UNPRINTED PAPER COVERS, PREVIOUS OWNER'S INK SIGNATURE . VERY GOOD COPY OF A SCARCE CLASSIC,

Condition: Gut. Erstausgabe. 239 S., 15x14 cm, franz. Broschur, mit s/w Abb. / 239 pp., brochure, with b/w ill. Einband mit Gebrauchsspuren, Buchblock altersgemäss leicht gebräunt.

19.5 x 19.5cm. Hardcover with dustjacket, 243pp. The second UK edition of the seminal architect's proposal of a scale of measurement, compared in the foreword to a musical scale, based on harmonic proportions. From Le Corbusier's new foreword: "The first edition [1948] of the Modulor was sold out very quickly. The Modulor has had a friendly reception throughout the world. Architects everywhere have recognized in it, not a mystique, but a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim, as Professor Einstein has put it so well, of 'making the bad difficult and the good easy'". Top of jacket has 3cm closed tear, spine slightly slanted. Previous owner's names inked on front endpaper. Otherwise good.

Printed cloth over boards. Condition: Good. First. Harcovers. Square 12mo. 243/236 pp. Two volumes. Both books illustrated throughout in B/W. Water damage to cover of vol1 nad the rear cover of vol2. affecting prelims pages. Aside from this, volumes are in workable and in very good, square condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 336pp. Continuation of 'The Modulor' 1948. Square format. Blue cloth boards with black and red titles and decorations to front and spine in unclipped dustwrapper. Neat ownership inscription to ffep. Boards very lightly worn at extremities. Dustwrapper likewise with some small chips and nicks to upper and lower edges. eps very lightly foxed. Otherwise this is a handsome clean tight and bright copy.

Hardback. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Two volumes - Volume One - [4], 5-243p, [1] and Volume Two - [6], 9-336pp. Original cloth in DJ's. DJ spines faded and lightly browned, slightly chipped to spine ends and corners, second volume with chip to foot of upper panel and head of lower panel, tape stains to endpapers with some off setting on to DJ flaps, and a scuff to fore edge of lower panel, but generally complete. Top edge of text blocks lightly dust stained, former owner's name to ffep of first volume, text very lightly browned but generally clean. "In Le Corbusier's buildings and art a recurrent silhouette appears: the Modulor Man. It's a stylised human figure, standing proudly and square-shouldered, sometimes with one arm raised, the mascot of Le Corbusier's system for re-ordering the universe.The Modulor was meant as a universal system of proportions. The ambition was vast: it was devised to reconcile maths, the human form, architecture and beauty into a single system. This system could then be used to provide the measurements for all aspects of design from door handles to entire cities, and Corbusier believed that it could be further applied to industry and mechanics. The modulor system had a series of scales and measurements, laid out in a modulor rule. The fundamental 'module' of the Modulor is a six-foot man, allegedly based on the usual height of the detectives in the English crime novels Corbusier enjoyed" (ICON website) Size: 8vo.

Couverture souple. Condition: Assez bon. Edition originale. Le Corbusier Le Modulor - Essai sur une mesure harmonique à l'échelle humaine applicable universellement à l'architecture et à la mécanique. Edition de l'Architecture d'aujourd'hui, 1950. Format : 15/14. Pages : 239. Edition Originale. Illustré de dessins en noir et blanc. Manque la jaquette page 15 gribouillage au stylo rouge (voir photos) quelques mots surlignés au stylo rouge. Intérieur bon état.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Muy bueno. Dust Jacket Condition: Bueno. 1ª Edición. Le Corbusier (1887-1965). "Le Modulor". Boulogne sur Seine, Éditions de l'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, 1950. Volumen n° 4 de la III Sección B (Normalización y Construcción) de la Colección Ascoral. 238 páginas. Con 100 ilustraciones. Encuadernación rústica. Con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Primera Edición. (código 4277).

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A superb example of the 1954 and 1958 American editions of the 2 volume set, both published by Harvard University Press. Vol. 1 is the 1954 stated 2nd American printing and Vol. 2 is the 1958 1st American printing. Both volumes clean and Near Fine in bright, price-intact, Near Fine dustjackets. Both volumes also translated from Le Corbusier's original French by Peter De Francia and Anna Bostock. In their wonderful square dimensions (12mos). Vol. 1: "A Harmonious Measure to the Human Scale Universally Applicable to Architecture and Mechanics"; and Vol. 2: "(Let the User Speak Next)". A very handsome set.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12° - (14.5x14.5 cm) - 230pp - B/w reproductions. The Modulor is an anthropometric scale of proportions devised by the Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier by Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret 1887-1965) Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930. First edition, inscribed and signed by Le Corbusier. Original boards and pictorial dust-jacket. In Very good condition. Inscribed by Author(s).

Couverture souple. Condition: Moyen. Edition originale.

London, Faber and Faber Limited, [1956]. 243 pp. 100 b./w. figs. Orig. hardcover (gray cloth printed with black and red), d./j. Small square 8vo. - Dust jacket with some a bit damaged (few tears); owner's name in ink on inner flap of dust jacket.Translated into English by Peter De Francia and Anna Bostock. - First English edition of the first volume was published by Faber and Faber Limited in 1954. A second volume followed in 1958. - - 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 explain a number of Le Corbusier's buildings and was later codified in two books, the first part of which we offer here. [Source: Wikipedia].

folder. Condition: Very Good. first edition. UNIQUE ANNOTATED TYPESCRIPT SIGNED WITH TWO FULL PAGES OF LE CORBUSIER DRAWINGS PRESENTING ONE OF HIS MOST FAMOUS AND INFLUENTIAL PHILOSOPHICAL ACHIEVEMENTS. Born in 1887, Le Corbusier found himself situated between two competing historical and architectural moments: an intricate history of grandiose Gothic and Renaissance style, and the sleek, efficient creation of the Second Industrial Revolution. In his canonical 1923 Towards an Architecture, Le Corbusier argued that modernity must be matched with architectural innovation. Functionality took a core place in Le Corubusier's thinking. Houses were to be understood as machines for living, said Le Corbusier famously, and machines were to be governed by the economies in which they existed. From this conviction came Le Corbusier's famous villas, his massive housing blocks in the suburbs of Paris, and, perhaps most importantly, a fathering of modern architecture as defined by an emphasis on function, simplicity, and new material [Towards an Architecture]. In 1942, Le Corbusier was asked to create a universal measurement for construction materials. What Le Corbusier deemed necessary was not only the creation of a new unit, but the arduous task of unifying metric and Anglo-Saxon systems, integrating the inch and the centimeter into one intuitive scale. Although an ambitious project, this unification, coined Modulor, existed within the ethos of Le Corbusier's New Architecture. As Le Corbusier identified it, the importance of an architect was in their giving of "a [physical] order which we feel to be in accordance with that of [the] world." This order was not only in aesthetic sleekness, but in an ethos of design that mirrored the social, moral, and political reality surrounding the architect. Therefore, units of measurement as enablers of creationwere to reflect modern efficiency with new universal standards [Towards an Architecture]. It was not immediately clear what should be the basis for the new standardized units. Metric and Anglo-Saxon systems, after all, are based on different 'orders'a meter defined by the speed of light, a law of science; a foot defined by the proportions of the human body. Le Corbusier framed this tension in this rare manuscript: "the human body [exists] on one side, and the mathematicians on the other." Le Corbusier struggled with the concept of the Modulor over many years and the present text, dated by Le Corbusier [28/1/1951], represents a more mature and developed presentation of his theories. It reads as a manifesto-like preamble to the Modulor's ambitions in the postwar world: to "harmonize the flow of worldwide production," to systematize standardization without deadening compromise, and to reduce the friction of incompatible systems (metric versus footinch). Le Corbusier presents the Modulor as a human-scale "gamut" of measurementsexplicitly compared to the musician's scalegrounding chosen dimensions in bodily proportion and number. He invokes the golden ratio and the Fibonacci series as ordering principles, and includes the well-known endorsement attributed to Einstein ("a scale of proportions that makes the bad difficult and the good easy"), framing the Modulor as a tool of order, rigor, and harmony applicable from the architect's drafting table to the engineer's office and the building site. The two full drawing sheets, marked with figure callouts (e.g., "Fig. 35," "Fig. 65," "Fig. 100") and geometric/proportional constructions (including a right-angle scheme marked "90°" and ? symbols), reinforce the document's working character: argument paired with visual proof, capturing Le Corbusier's drive to make proportion not merely theoretical, but operational. Although we haven't been able to find this exact text published anywhere, the present typescript closely alignsoften in phrasing and argumentative sequencewith Le Corbusier's published presentation of the Modulor, and can be read as a self-contained "preamble" distilled from that larger.

Paperback. Condition: Used: Good. [FIRST EDITION] (Np): Durisol, 1947. Softcover, unpaginated (26 folded pages) bound via 3 metal-supported punched holes. First Edition; First Printing; Rare Corbusier related publication. "The scope of the present study is to determine all pertinent factors which will condition the design and production of MODULOR." Illustrated rear cover with architectural charts and graphs throughout. A rare title by this Greek architect and student of Le Corbusier. Minor wear/ soiling to covers, otherwise very good overall condition. No marks, NOT EX-LIBRARY. (dc) (Np): Durisol, 1947. First Edition; First Printing; softcover, unpaginated (26 folded pages) bound via 3 supported punched holes. "The scope of the present study is to determine all pertinent factors which will condition the design and production of MODULOR." Illustrated rear cover with architectural charts and graphs throughout. A rare title by this Greek architect and student of Le Corbusier.