ABSTRACT
In his book Le Modulor, Le Corbusier describes the start of his Voyage of discovery' in search of the secret of proportion:
At twenty-three, our man drew on his sketching-board the façade of a house he was going to build. A perturbing question arose in his mind: What is the rule that orders, that connects all things? I am faced with a problem that is geometrical in nature …' Great disquiet, much searching, many questions. Then he remembered how once, on a voyage of discovery, as he was looking over a modern villa at Bremen, the gardener there had said to him: This stuff, you see, that's complicated, all these twiddly bits, curves and angles, calculations, it's all very learned.' The villa had belonged to someone called Thorn Brick (?), a Dutchman (about 1900). 1
