After going through some research and doing some own readings on the topic given 'Le Modular' i've gained some valuable knowledge on the existence of The modular. here's my interpretation of the Le Modular based on what I've read.
Le Modular
Le Modular is the special given name to a Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier. The Modular is recognized to be an anthropometric scale of proportions which he related to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” that later used by architecture to help scale the proportions of the human body to hel[ improve the appearance and the scale of a certain element. Examples couls be like the width and height of a door or the size of a chair or table and even the height of the ceiling. After Le Corbusier sought to introduce a scale of visual measures while being fascinated still with measurements such as an elbow equals to cubit, fingers used for digits and a thumb for inch measuring he was still baffled with measuring metres hence lead to the creation of The Modular in 1943.
It was created as an illustration bridge among two unsuited scales which are the Imperial system and the Metric System and based on the height of an English man with his arm raised.
Le Corbusier quoted the Modular to be a "range of harmonious measurements to suit the human scale, universally applicable to architecture and to mechanical things."
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