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Chandigarh: The Modernist Utopia

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38:41 | Jun 6th, 2019

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Following the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru commissioned famed architect Le Corbusier to design the city of Chandigarh, to signal India’s rise on the ...Show More



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rmmiller364 recommended:Jan 16th, 2020

When teaching Chandigarh, I often focus on the failures of Western modernism and the lack of attention to the local Indian context and climate when building the city; it was lovely, however, to listen to the voices of people who lived in this city and helped build it. And now I always have my eyes p...Show More

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