Chandigarh : living with Le Corbusier / Bärbel Högner ; with contributions by Clemens Kroll, Arthur Rüegg, Arno Lederer ; and a conversation with M.N. Sharma.

Main entry:

Högner, Bärbel.

Title & Author:

Chandigarh : living with Le Corbusier / Bärbel Högner ; with contributions by Clemens Kroll, Arthur Rüegg, Arno Lederer ; and a conversation with M.N. Sharma.

Publication:

Description:

175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Clemens Kroll -- Prologue / Bärbel Högner -- Introduction. Picturing Chandigarh / Arthur Rüegg -- Essay. Architecture and imagination / Arno Lederer -- Essay. Work spaces and public buildings. Chandigarh and Le Corbusier / Bärbel Högner -- Essay. Housing schemes and social infrastructure -- Essay. Like a foreign country / Bärbel Högner -- Open spaces -- Interview. A conversation with M.N. Sharman. Nobody wants to leave this place / Bärbel Högner.

Summary:

In the nineteen-fifties the architectural profession turned its gaze towards India where Le Corbusier had been commissioned to build an ideal modern city. Today, Chandigarh is a pulsating metropolis while, at the same time, the originally planned city was able to retain its garden city character. In her extensive urban portrait, the photographer and ethnologist Bärbel Händel investigates the alleged contradiction between European modernism and Indian lifestyle. This book presents a range of photographs and texts that exemplify the local modernism of the gesamtkunstwerk that is Chandigarh. With ethnographic flair, the author looks at the adoption of the star architect's systems of rules and regulations. Alternating between architecture and scenes from daily life, her images paint a multifaceted picture of "Living with Le Corbusier" in this unique planned city in India.

ISBN:

9783868591378
3868591370

Subject:

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
Le Corbusier 1887-1965
Le Corbusier.
City planning India Chandīgarh.
Architecture India Chandīgarh History 20th century.
New towns India.
Garden cities India Chandīgarh.
Architecture Inde Chandigarh Histoire 20e siècle.
Villes nouvelles Inde.
Cités-jardins Inde Chandigarh.
Architecture.
Buildings.
City planning.
Garden cities.
Manners and customs.
New towns.
Architektur
Städtebau
Chandīgarh (India) Buildings, structures, etc.
Chandīgarh (India) Social life and customs.
India.
India Chandīgarh.
Chandigarh

Form/genre:

History.
Bildband.

Added entries:

Kroll, Clemens.
Rüegg, Arthur, 1942-
Lederer, Arno.
Sharma, Mahendra Narain, 1932-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272492
Call No.: BIB 205817
Status: Available

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