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How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh. Installation view, 2013
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh. Installation view, 2013
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh. Installation view, 2013
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh. Installation view, 2013
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh. Installation view, 2013
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh. Installation view, 2013
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh. Installation view, 2013
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh. Installation view, 2014
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh. Installation view, 2014
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh. Installation view, 2014
How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh. Installation view, 2014
The beginning of the 1950s was a moment of global upheaval. From India to Morocco, from Guatemala to Indochina, the process of decolonization gained momentum and the Cold War began. Architects working or acting as experts in the non-Western areas of the globe could no longer plan as if sites were terrains vague and people were mute subjects. The end of colonial subjugation and the resulting self-awareness provoked new modernist attitudes and sensibilities—a true shift in thinking about the architecture of the modern city.
The exhibition How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh presents a new history of modern urbanism based on two major experiments in the Global South that took place during this wave of decolonization. It considers anew the relationship between local conditions and the international language of modern architecture, particularly in the context of the political and economic cooperation favoured by the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, and other international bodies.
Curators: Tom Avermaete, TU Delft, and Maristella Casciato, CCA.
Exhibition design: Atelier Bow-Wow, Tokyo.
Graphic design: Feed, Montreal.
Photographic commissions: Yto Barrada and Takashi Homma.
Selected objects
Punjab (India). Public Relations Department, Chandigarh. Between 1960 and 1965. Offset lithograph (ink) on paper, 22,8 x 19,4 cm. Fonds Pierre Jeanneret, Collection CCA. ARCH264769. Gift of Jacqueline Jeanneret
Photograph by Pierre Jeanneret, Fonds Pierre Jeanneret, CCA, ARCH264675. Le Corbusier’s hand holding the silhouette of the Modulor while sighting the Chandigarh plain and the Siwalik mountain range, c. 1952
Pierre Jeanneret, photographer. Gandhi Bhawan at Punjab University campus. c. 1964. Fonds Pierre Jeanneret, CCA Collection. ARCH264911
Yto Barrada, photographer. Casablanca, August 2013. Satellite dishes, plaster mouldings, bricks, and a mosque—elements by which inhabitants have transformed the Nid d’abeilles housing block in the cité verticale at Carrières centrales into a new environment attuned to their needs and aspirations
Yto Barrada, photographer. Casablanca, August 2013. Several layers of concrete floors as well as decoration superimposed on the low-rise housing of the cité horizontale at Carrières centrales, turning it into a dense urban fabric
Yto Barrada, photographer. Casablanca, August 2013. Everyday appropriation of the collective spaces of the Sémiramis and Nid d’abeilles buildings in the Carrières centrales neighbourhood
Michel Ecochard. Casablanca : le roman d’une ville. (Paris: Éditions de Paris, 1955)
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