The Modulor

I decided to re-enact just how Le Corbusier discovered proportion above. Actually his was an even more casual discovery, as one postcard lay on top of another on the desk of his Parisian garret. The tale is told in one of his more peculiar but deeply endearing books 'The Modulor' which I recommend to any struggling young architect as they attempt to unravel the secret of something looking half decent. Whilst his resultant fresh scales were intended for widespread use in the flat and up and down, an improvement on both feet and inches and the abstractions of the metre, they were also consequent of a remarkable view of spacial perception itself.
L-C believed our spatial perception worked in the manner of the Fibonacci series, lots of perceptions close up, stretching to less less of them far away. he also stated this as common sense. Meanwhile, he thought, once you brought all the elements of dimension together to create the ordered but 'variomatic' (I'm borrowing this term) whole, that you would understand it as a texture (as a feeling NOT a written text). I guess that goes some way to explaining why being in/at the Unite d-habitation at Marseilles is so immersive an experience, and why the phenomenologists amongst today's young architects, so paralysed by the mysteries of 'space' might do well to read the Modulor and gain great insight from it.