The Athens Charter, as revised by Le Corbusier, promoted the concept of balance between the collective and the individual, and had its prototype in the Unité d’habitation, while the Capitol Complex, ...
“To my mind it was the greatest experiment in the contemporary history of planning and architecture,” he says of the city. “And this experiment of Chandigarh was where Le Corbusier put all ...
Chandigarh, once an urban planning marvel, is now experiencing severe pollution and deforestation due to unregulated ...
In 1925 Le Corbusier, the Swiss-French architect and ... “Waking up every morning and knowing that the city is a little bit better than it was yesterday—that’s very nice when you have ...
He established the Centre for Environmental Planning ... Rastogi. Le Corbusier in 1964 (Image credit: Joop van Bilsen / Anefo via Wikimedia Commons) While Nehru was building a city in Chandigarh ...