Le Corbusier's Villa Shodhan

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This book is a thorough examination of the least known of Le Corbusier's buildings in India, Villa Shodhan in Ahmedabad.As a privately owned home it has been protected from fame and only a few have been granted access to this fantastic house, the last villa to be designed by Le Corbusier. The owner of the building has been the same through out the years, and it has been preserved exactly as it was constructed in 1957. Villa Shodhan is a large and complicated building in which Corbusier made use of all his experience with house building, at the same time adjusting them to the local conditions like climate, building tradition and family relations. Among the numerous illustrations are a number of new photographs of Villa Shodhan as it appears today. They convey the densely grown garden, the four large and very different facades as well as the complicated spatial organisations, which together form the masterly designed interior. The sketches and original drawings together with historic photographs are also represented in the book, and in the introduction associate Professor Jrgen Hauberg compares Villa Shodhan to other works of Le Corbusier.

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