Chandigarh's Le Corbusier the struggle for modernity in postcolonial India

• Main Author: Prakash, Vikramaditya
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Seattle University of Washington Press 2002
• Series: Studies in modernity and national identity
• Subjects: Le Corbusier, > 1887-1965; Αρχιτεκτονική > Ινδία > Ιστορία > 20ός αιώνας.; Πολεοδομικός σχεδιασμός > Ινδία

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : the "East-West" opposition in Chandigarh's Le Corbusier
• The master plan : contesting conceptions of the modern
• The Capitol Complex : the Rousseauesque Garden of Eden
• The Capitol buildings : the aesthetics of the High Court and the Assembly
• With open hands: architectural symbolism and the vagaries of political claims
• Afterword : notes on inheriting a postcolonial modernism.