FIGURE 169 Le Corbusier, The Modulor (London, 1961).

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TitleThe Modulor

Creator nameLe Corbusier

Creator nationality/cultureSwiss

Creator roleAuthor/Writer/Publisher

Creation date1961

Object typeBook/manuscript

SubjectsBook designModernism (Aesthetics)

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Conclusion: Sculpture and Scale

Alina Payne

From Ornament to Object: Genealogies of Architectural Modernism

~In this longue durée story of architecture’s travails into modernity from 1851 to 1925, we have witnessed a gradual transference of the explicating and rhetorical function traditionally shouldered by ornament to the objects of daily use. Several factors contributed to this shift. In the face of runaway industrialization the expansive...

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Alina Payne

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.263-268

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00236.008

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20976&redirecttoanchor=62057

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