Modern designs: history and memory in Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh
Located at the foothills of the Sivalik Mountains, Chandigarh was the dream city of independent India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. In 1952, Nehru commissioned the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier to design Chandigarh. Scholars often locate in Corbusier’s plans an urban modernity that...
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Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
2016-09-01
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| Series: | Journal of Architecture and Urbanism |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.vgtu.lt/index.php/JAU/article/view/2404 |