Living in the SOCIOARC Spiral.

Painting and digital collage by Anita Bakshi.

This rendering of the SOCIOARC Spiral illustrates the convergence of social life and the built environment as a tangled circuit of relations, centered along the axis of experience of embodied and emplaced social life. It is a dynamic circuit tying people to society and to the built environment.  

The well known Modulor Man figure was created by the architect Le Corbusier. He drew and rendered the figure in a variety of ways, but the most well-known version shows a tall silhouette, square-shouldered with bulging muscles, left hand raised proudly to the sky. He stands exactly 1.83 meters (6 feet) tall. The Modulor Man appeared in multiple renderings created by Le Corbusier as an illustration of a scale of proportions he would use to connect architectural design to the human body. He was initially a bit shorter (1.75 meters, or 5’-9”) but was made taller because, in the words of Le Corbusier, “In English detective novels, the good-looking men, such as policemen, are always 6ft tall!” (Wainwright, 2021) The person at the center of our SOCIOARC Spiral is rendered in response to the Modulor, a different kind of person, with many measurements, opposite hand raised, to be mindful of the non-abstract person at the center of SOCIOARC places.