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

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Prakash, Vikramaditya
Μορφή: Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Seattle University of Washington Press 2002
Σειρά:Studies in modernity and national identity
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 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.