TY  - BOOK
AB  - 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.
AU  - Högner, Bärbel.
AU  - Kroll, Clemens.
AU  - Rüegg, Arthur,
AU  - Lederer, Arno.
AU  - Sharma, Mahendra Narain,
CN  - HT169.57.I52
CN  - HT169.57.I52
CY  - Berlin :
DA  - c2010.
ID  - 436414
KW  - City planning
KW  - Architecture, Modern
KW  - New towns
KW  - Garden cities
N2  - 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.
PB  - Jovis Verlag,
PP  - Berlin :
PY  - c2010.
SN  - 9783868591378
SN  - 3868591370
T1  - Chandigarh :living with Le Corbusier /
TI  - Chandigarh :living with Le Corbusier /
ER  -