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Terms and conditions applyChandigarh, Living with Le Corbusier
Bärbel Högner
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Format: Book
Pages: 175
Publisher: Jovis Verlag
Date Published: Nov 2010
Stock Code: 73933
ISBN: 9783868591378
Binding: Hardback
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In the 1950s architects and urban planners looked to India where a new capital was being built. The involvement of a famous avant-garde architect drew their attention: Le Corbusier had been commissioned by the Punjab government to design a modern city from scratch. Today this urban environment, shaped by the rigid ideas of Western functionalism, has become a pulsating habitat and home to a million people, while retaining its character of a garden city.
Barbel Hogner, photographer and social anthropologist, bridges the gap between the Swiss architect's legacy and the daily rhythm of Indian life. The book presents a wide range of photographs and texts that explore Chandigarh's distinctive vernacular modernism. With ethnographic sensibility, Hogner examines how the inhabitants have appropriated the city concept. Form Le Corbusier's famous buildings in the Capitol Complex to local rituals in the wide open spaces, the images show a multifaceted picture of Living with Le Corbusier in this unique planned city.
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