Chandigarh's Le Corbusier : the struggle for modernity in postcolonial India / Vikramaditya Prakash.

Main entry:

Prakash, Vikramaditya.

Title & Author:

Chandigarh's Le Corbusier : the struggle for modernity in postcolonial India / Vikramaditya Prakash.

Publication:

Description:

viii, 179 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Series:

Studies in modernity and national identity

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the "East-West" opposition in Chandigarh's Le Corbusier -- The master plan : contesting conceptions of the modern -- The Capitol Complex : the Rousseauesque Garden of Eden -- The Capitol buildings : the aesthetics of the High Court and the Assembly -- Architectural symbolism and the vagaries of political claims -- Afterword : notes on inheriting a postcolonial modernism.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0295982071 (alk. paper)
9780295982076 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
Le Corbusier 1887-1965
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965 Criticism and interpretation.
Le Corbusier Stadtgestaltung Chandigarh Geschichte.
Le Corbusier Architektur Chandigarh.
Architecture India Chandīgarh History.
City planning India Chandīgarh History 20th century.
Architecture Inde Chandigarh 20e siècle.
Urbanisme Inde Chandigarh Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture Inde Chandigarh Histoire.
Architecture.
City planning.
Social conditions
Architektur
Architecture India Chandigarh.
City planning India Chandigarh.
Architects France 20th century.
Stadtgestaltung Chandigarh Le Corbusier Geschichte.
Stadtplanung Chandigarh Geschichte.
Architektur Chandigarh Le Corbusier.
Chandīgarh (India) Social conditions.
Chandigarh (Inde) Conditions sociales.
India Chandīgarh.
Chandigarh
Chandīgarh (India) Buildings, structures, etc.
Chandigarh Stadtgestaltung Le Corbusier Geschichte.
Chandigarh Stadtplanung Geschichte.
Chandigarh Architektur Le Corbusier.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Studies in modernity and national identity.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 223912
Call No.: NA44.L433.25 C5 2002a
Status: Available

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