#human scale

Two walls pause the sky and call it architecture.

Here, space is not empty. It is calibrated. Measured in shadows, footsteps, the careful distance between strangers sharing the same rectangle of light.

And still I scan the geometry for a familiar absence, as if you might be hidden between planes of concrete and sky, as if every open surface were another place to look for you.

(Photo: d.)

No one is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves. Rebuilding The Village – Google Docs What should we do to survive the current state of the world? “Engage in collaborative niche construction at human scale.” The human capacity for language would not have given us any adaptive ecological advantage if it did not primarily serve the purpose of improving our ability to understand, trust,…

Cover of "Der Modulor" by Le Corbusier (Ed.5, 1985)

Between 1942 and 1955 the architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965) developed a universal measuring system known as the "Modulor".

The Modulor represented an attempt to give architecture a mathematical order oriented to a human scale. Starting from the golden ratio and the proportions of the human body, Le Corbusier developed his doctrine for the proportions of construction. He started from an assumed standard size of the human body and marked three intervals related to each other in the proportion of the golden ratio.

The Modulor