Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret), The Modulor and Modulor 2 – 2 volumes. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2000.

IBC – Proteomics, 1–2 March 2000, Basel Hilton, Switzerland

The massive increase in nucleotide sequence information available in public and private databases, coupled with advances in mass spectrometry (MS) and the associated search algorithms, have provided the basis for the emerging field of proteomics. The recent announcement of 35 000 or so genes in the human genome was on the low side of the number predicted. Yet, it re-affirms the view that cellul...

MONDRIANULOR : Exploring the interaction between harmonic division and coloring

We are proposing MOnDrianULOR, a system capable of producing visual forms based on the works of Swiss architect Le Corbusier and Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. The system produces visual forms that employ a rectangular harmonic division of the plane based on Le Corbusier’s Modulor principles and a coloring scheme that may use only primary colors so as to produce the strongest visual effect, as Mon...

Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard, the biography of a tormented genius.

Veiling Architecture Privacy in Loos and Le Corbusier

Arranging Rectangles

Grids have been described in the design literature for at least 50 years. French architect Le Corbusier describes a grid system in his 1946 book Le Modulor [2]. Swiss graphic designer Karl Gerstner describes a number of grid systems or “programmes” in his 1964 book Designing Programmes [1]. One of Gerstner’s examples is a 15th century system for varying cathedral windows. Use of tatami mats app...