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Le Corbusier has left an invaluable legacy with his life’s work, throwing out convention and ushering in a new era of modern ...
Chandigarh, Jul 22 (efe_epa). — SwissFrench architect Charles Edouard JeanneretGris, also known as Le Corbusier (18771965), came to India to design Chandigarh, a city in northern India that ...
Chandigarh will host the International Permanent Conference of architectural works of Le Corbusier Transnational Nomination in Unesco under the Indian presidency in December. The two-day event ...
Princeton Architectural Press, $55 (240p) ISBN 978-1-61689-581-5 In this work of architectural photography, Fynn provides a superb look at North India’s Chandigarh, Le Corbusier’s singular ...
A piece in the Guardian suggests that Chandigarh, the city in the north of India planned essentially from scratch by the Swiss-French modernist architect Le Corbusier in the 1950s, is being ...
By:Rajnish Wattas When you look at the layout plan of Chandigarh, it looks like a mosaic of different colours --stitched together as one rich embroidery. Le Corbusier its planner, devised a colour ...
According to a statement released by UNESCO, Le Corbusier’s work successfully “invented new architectural techniques to respond to the needs of society.” ...
A new book, Chandigarh Is In India, seeks to rescue the city from its image of being the dull laboratory of modern Indian architecture and link it to the creative process instead.
Finally the bus arrived at Chandigarh late in the afternoon. Le Corbusier was waiting, so I ran off to catch the sight of the buildings as the sun was setting.
Chief architect that having worked under Le Corbusier, BV Doshi also contributed to the planning of Chandigarh and his architectural work as well as his zeal and enthusiasm will always be ...