Untold Story of Chandigarh Master Plan.
If you look at a master plan of the city, you will see that the entire Union territory of Chandigarh is subdivided into the Capitol Complex, the City Center, Government facilities, Industries and residences. So you see, “planned” is perhaps an understatement to Corbusier’s mastery.
Chandigarh, one of India’s capital cities, was conceived as a modernist utopia. When Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, commissioned Le Corbusier to design the city’s master.
A resident of Chandigarh since 2003, it took me 14 years to take a closer look at Chandigarh’s architecture. Chandigarh is a city of post-independent India, a symbol of freedom and modernism.
Essay On Chandigarh. Introduction to Chandigarh Chandigarh is the first planned modern city ofIndia designed by the French architect Le Corbusier. Chandigarh is a city in India that serves as the capital of two states - Punjab and Haryana. However, the city does not belong to either state. Rather, the city is administered by the federal government and hence classified as a union territory.
Chandigarh Revealed: Le Corbusier's City Today 60.00 In 1950, Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru invited legendary French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier to embark on one of the greatest experiments in urban planning history: to build a new capital—Chandigarh, a city whose monumental modernism promised to free India from the fetters of colonial tradition.
LE CORBUSIER'S PRINCIPLES OF CITY PLANNING AND THElR APPLICATION IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS by AMlT TUNGARE Bachelor of Architecture, University of Pune, lndia Master of Planning, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, lndia A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in the partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of.
The issue of theft of drawings and master plan of Chandigarh is becoming a major issue and various citizen groups and NGO’s are demanding registration of FIR and recovery of the articles. Since last few years it has been regularly reported that many articles, maps, drawings and other items of heritage importance are regularly being auctioned in Europe and especially in France.