The Chandigarh Catalogues

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The partition of British India in 1947 brought about the creation of a city which has since become an icon of Modernist architecture and planned urbanism - the only one of numerous city schemes designed by Le Corbusier to have actually been built. The city of Chandigarh was described as "unfettered by the traditions of the past, a symbold of the nation's faith into the future," and was comissioned to reflect the newly independent India's modern and progressive outlook. But what has become of the Indian City built from scratch in the 1950's and 60's by architects from France and Britain? How have the modernist principles of Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Maxwell Fry, and Jane Drew stood up to the test of time? The Candigarh Catalogues is a project documenting the Indian city master planned by Le Corbusier in the 1950s. The project collates studies, undertaken by architect Jonathan Nicholls and editor/artist Patsy Craig, into how the city's modernist architecture is occupied today. Through photographs, interviews, building-studies and archival material, the project uses the compartmental form of the city plan, to examine the effects of Western Modernist design on Indian society and culture.
The partition of British India in 1947 brought about the creation of a city which has since become an icon of Modernist architecture and planned urbanism - the only one of numerous city schemes designed by Le Corbusier to have actually been built. The city of Chandigarh was described as "unfettered by the traditions of the past, a symbold of the nation's faith into the future," and was comissioned to reflect the newly independent India's modern and progressive outlook. But what has become of the Indian City built from scratch in the 1950's and 60's by architects from France and Britain? How have the modernist principles of Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Maxwell Fry, and Jane Drew stood up to the test of time? The Candigarh Catalogues is a project documenting the Indian city master planned by Le Corbusier in the 1950s. The project collates studies, undertaken by architect Jonathan Nicholls and editor/artist Patsy Craig, into how the city's modernist architecture is occupied today. Through photographs, interviews, building-studies and archival material, the project uses the compartmental form of the city plan, to examine the effects of Western Modernist design on Indian society and culture.

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