Chandigarh : living with Le Corbusier / Bärbel Högner ; with contributions by Clemens Kroll ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Högner, Bärbel.

Contributor:

Kroll, Clemens.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.

Le Corbusier.

Architecture--India--Chandīgarh--History--20th century--Pictorial works.

Architecture.

City planning--India--Chandīgarh--History--20th century.

City planning.

Buildings--India--Chandīgarh--Pictorial works.

Buildings.

New towns.

History.

India--Chandīgarh.

India.

Chandīgarh (India)--Social life and customs.

Chandīgarh (India).

New towns--India--Pictorial works.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

175 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Jovis, [2010]

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.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

3868591370

9783868591378

OCLC:

676870464

Publisher Number:

99947454887