Chandigarh Revealed: Le Corbusier's City Today

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Like all transcendent visionaries, Le Corbusier was adept at taking the iconic and symbolic and using them to fashion his own unique vocabulary. This volume points us towards the way in which his ideas created fertile grounds for architecture and urban planning in Chandigarh, and in India, that encapsulated the visions of the post-war and post-colonial era.

With insightful analyses of multiple buildings across Chandigarh, the author illuminates the compositional poetry evident in Le Corbusier's structures, and the ways in which the patina of time has changed the city. This vol- ume offers commentary on not just the intentions and plan that shaped Chandigarh, but also the dialogue of what they have become. A visceral journey through a remarka- ble modernist landscape using the photographic medium, Chandigarh Revealed pays homage to the works of a mas- ter with reflective observations of a living city.

Fynn's award-winning work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons School of Design in New York, the Chicago Athenaeum, and Weserburg in Bremen, Germany. It has also appeared in Fast Company, the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, Graphis, International DesignYearbook, and Repertorio del Design Italiano, 1950-2000. Fynn is a visiting lecturer at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, ArtCenter College of Design in Los Angeles, and Parsons School of Design. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

**Contents and Sample Pages**