#Chandigarh

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Tower of Shadows, by Le Corbusier (1957).

Chandigarh, India.

© Roberto Conte (2019)

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Secretariat Building (1952-58) in Chandigarh, India, by Le Corbusier

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दर्शन सर्वोच्च है, परन्तु दर्शन से भी श्रेष्ठ है उस दर्शन का पालन करना। तो यदि तुम केवल शुद्ध रहो, तुम्हारा प्रचार प्रभावशाली रहेगा। बृहस्पति क�� पत्र, 15 नवम्बर 1971

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Pierre Jeanneret in Chandigarh

In Chandigarh, Pierre Jeanneret had the thankless task of supervising, step by step, the creation of the new capital city, of sticking to the plans and carrying them through when the path was difficult and strewn with obstacles. I am very appreciative of it and I owe him a huge debt of gratitude.

- Le Corbusier

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Alain Tanner, “Une Ville à Chandigarh”, documentaire, 1966

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Palace of Assembly, by Le Corbusier (1957).

Chandigarh, India.

© Roberto Conte (2019)

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In 1951 Le Corbusier embarked on his „aventure indienne“, his Indian adventure, to design and build Chandigarh, the new capital of the Punjab. On February 20 he boarded a flight to Bombay together with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret and on February 23 the two met up with the players to be involved in the project: Maxwell Fry, engineer P.L. Varma as well as government official P.N. Thapar. At the time of their arrival at the designated site of the future capital it was a wide plain dotted with numerous villages and lush vegetation. On the same day Le Corbusier began writing and drawing in his so-called „Album Punjab“, a notebook he would continue to fill until March 11 and which today represents a unique source to the events, ideas and impressions preceding the design and construction of Chandigarh. The „Album Punjab“ has recently been published for the first time as a facsimile by Lars Müller Publishers and is accompanied by a volume written by Maristella Casciato providing additional context to LC’s commission, unpublished photographs taken by Pierre Jeanneret during the trip and a day-by-day synopsis of the notebook. Already the first entry tells of Corbusier’s deep interest in the existing landscape and villages, their scale and density as well as the daily life going on. At the same time he also began to search for solutions regarding water supply, spatial approaches to climate control and air circulation in residential buildings as well as he sketched a road system for the future capital and its capitol complex. Consecutively Le Corbusier elaborated these initial impressions and sketches and delved into the local architecture, the spatial organization of traditional houses and already drew planimetric arrangements of low-cost housing units. In terms of the overall urban planning LC harked back to the Pilot Plan he developed for Bogotá together with José Luis Sert. A pressing issue that also came up during the trip were construction costs and the high cost of wood which made the use of concrete even more appealing. In view of the far-reaching insights the book provides it is an important addition to the literature on Le Corbusier and highly recommended!

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Pierre Jeanneret,

Portrait of model makers, Rattan Singh and Dhani Ram, at work on the model for Capitol Complex, Sector 1, Chandigarh, India (c. 1960).

© CCA; courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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