Maristella Casciato: Introducing Pierre Jeanneret—architect, designer, educator—in Chandigarh
On 18 November, Maristella Casciato, CCA Senior Mellon Fellow and Professor of Architectural History, School of Architecture “Aldo Rossi” at Cesena, University of Bologna, speaks on the pivotal contribution of Pierre Jeanneret to the construction of Chandigarh, India. The lesser-known cousin of the famous Le Corbusier, this seminar presents “another” view of Pierre Jeanneret.
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Presented in English Keyword(s):
Maristella Casciato, Pierre Jeanneret
18 November 2010 , 6PM
Maristella Casciato: Introducing Pierre Jeanneret—architect, designer, educator—in Chandigarh
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On 18 November, Maristella Casciato, CCA Senior Mellon Fellow and Professor of Architectural History, School of Architecture “Aldo Rossi” at Cesena, University of Bologna, speaks on the pivotal contribution of Pierre Jeanneret to the construction of Chandigarh, India. The lesser-known cousin of the famous Le Corbusier, this seminar presents “another” view of Pierre Jeanneret.
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Presented in English Keyword(s):
Maristella Casciato, Pierre Jeanneret
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A collection of Chandigarh
30 April 2020
The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
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Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
26 November 2013 to 20 April 2014
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh
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The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial(...)
Main galleries Keyword(s):
Casablanca, Chandigarh, Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Morocco, Punjab, India, Morocco, modernism, Africa, Takashi Homma, Yto Barrada
1st December 2022
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
research fellow 2022, seminar, research, Manu P. Sobti, Chandigarh, Pierre Jeanneret, landscape, photography, 1st december 2022
1 December 2022, 6pm
Shaughnessy House Keyword(s):
research fellow 2022, seminar, research, Manu P. Sobti, Chandigarh, Pierre Jeanneret, landscape, photography, 1st december 2022
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A Matter of Terms
Critical Cataloguing, Pierre Jeanneret, CCA archive, United Africa Company, terminology, archival descriptions, changing terms, peon, Chandigarh, India
23 May 2023
A Matter of Terms
Jennifer Préfontaine, Michele Tenzon, Ewan Harrison, Iain Jackson, Claire Tunstall, and Rixt Woudstra discuss changing terms in archival descriptions
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2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
Shaughnessy House
7 July 2016, 6pm
Visiting Scholar Seminar: Farhan Karim
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2016 Visiting Scholar Farhan Karim presents his research: In the recent development of architectural history, the involvement of Western architects in emerging postcolonial nations has been reviewed within the broader geopolitics of decolonization and global cold war. That analysis is certainly correct, as far as it goes, but what is needed historiographically is nuanced(...)
Shaughnessy House
ARCH402437
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A similar sculpture was installed at the Nursery School of Sector 16 and/or 22, Chandigarh, India.
between 1951 and 1965
View of a sculpture by Pierre Jeanneret
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A similar sculpture was installed at the Nursery School of Sector 16 and/or 22, Chandigarh, India.
ARCH402421
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Armchair possibly in teak, designed around 1960 or 1961 and known as an "office chair". Further investigation is required.
between 1960 and 1979
View of an armchair designed by Pierre Jeanneret, Chandigarh, India
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Armchair possibly in teak, designed around 1960 or 1961 and known as an "office chair". Further investigation is required.
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1952