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151 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
London : Batsford, 2018.
How to love brutalism / John Grindrod.
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London : Batsford, 2018.
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Illustrates and documents the architectural projects undertaken in India by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, and for the first time offers a detailed survey of the furniture designed for the new city of Chandigarh. Design, arts plastiques, architecture... autant de domaines de création à travers lesquels Le Corbusier et Pierre Jeanneret ont exercé leurs formidables(...)
Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, l'aventure indienne/ The indian adventure
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Illustrates and documents the architectural projects undertaken in India by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, and for the first time offers a detailed survey of the furniture designed for the new city of Chandigarh. Design, arts plastiques, architecture... autant de domaines de création à travers lesquels Le Corbusier et Pierre Jeanneret ont exercé leurs formidables talents, durant cette grande aventure humaine que représenta la construction de la ville de Chandigarh. Ces multiples réalisations indiennes méconnues, à Chandigarh mais également illustrées et commentées de façon détaillée, riche en documents à travers l'Inde, sont d'archives et photos.
Architecture Monographs
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Vikramaditya Prakash tells the fascinating story that lies behind the planning and architecture of Chandigarh. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of the city, where he grew up as the son of one of the nine Indian architects who assisted in designing Chandigarh, Prakash brings to light stories of town planners, bureaucrats, and architects vying over the colonial past and(...)
Chandigarh's Le Corbusier : the struggle for modernity in postcolonial India
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Vikramaditya Prakash tells the fascinating story that lies behind the planning and architecture of Chandigarh. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of the city, where he grew up as the son of one of the nine Indian architects who assisted in designing Chandigarh, Prakash brings to light stories of town planners, bureaucrats, and architects vying over the colonial past and the symbolic future of India.
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May 2002
Architecture Monographs
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This facsimile edition of the notebook kept by Le Corbusier (1887–1965) from his two-week stay in the area that would become Chandigarh, the new capital city of the Indian state of Punjab, presents his written or sketched memos and personal reflections as well as notes and schematic solutions elaborated during meetings. ''Album Punjab'' constitutes a primary source for(...)
Le Corbusier: Album Punjab, 1951
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This facsimile edition of the notebook kept by Le Corbusier (1887–1965) from his two-week stay in the area that would become Chandigarh, the new capital city of the Indian state of Punjab, presents his written or sketched memos and personal reflections as well as notes and schematic solutions elaborated during meetings. ''Album Punjab'' constitutes a primary source for reconstructing the topics addressed by the small group of planners and governmental officials who in only a few days developed the outlines of the Chandigarh plan.
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Thomas Florschuetz: Assembly
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Assembly, by German photographer Thomas Florschuetz (born 1957), is a photographic juxtaposition of the Indian Palace of Justice and parliament in Chandigarh, designed by Le Corbusier, with Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, by architect Oscar Niemeyer (a student of Le Corbusier's).
Thomas Florschuetz: Assembly
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Assembly, by German photographer Thomas Florschuetz (born 1957), is a photographic juxtaposition of the Indian Palace of Justice and parliament in Chandigarh, designed by Le Corbusier, with Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, by architect Oscar Niemeyer (a student of Le Corbusier's).
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After India won its independence in 1947, Le Corbusier was asked to design the city of Chandigarh. What he created, realizing his modernist vision, became known as The City Beautiful. This book is an ode to Le Corbusier's core belief that "architecture is the skillful, correct, an magnificent play of volumes assembled in light."
Martien Mulder: The city beautiful
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After India won its independence in 1947, Le Corbusier was asked to design the city of Chandigarh. What he created, realizing his modernist vision, became known as The City Beautiful. This book is an ode to Le Corbusier's core belief that "architecture is the skillful, correct, an magnificent play of volumes assembled in light."
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This volume follows a dual track, represented by the written commentary of Dennis Sharp which intersects with the dense sequence of images mounted around the theme of architecture lost in the contemporary metropolis. The photography covers the time span of the past twenty years, from Paolo Rosselli's early Indian travels exploring Chandigarh up to his more recent(...)
Photography monographs
September 2001, Milan
Paulo Rosselli architecture in photography
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This volume follows a dual track, represented by the written commentary of Dennis Sharp which intersects with the dense sequence of images mounted around the theme of architecture lost in the contemporary metropolis. The photography covers the time span of the past twenty years, from Paolo Rosselli's early Indian travels exploring Chandigarh up to his more recent architectural inquiries.
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September 2001, Milan
Photography monographs
How to love Brutalism
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llustrated with drawings by The Brutal Artist, this publication is divided up into a series of mini essays that explains the brutalist world from a human aspect, as well as an architectural, historical and even pop cultural angle. The book journeys from the UK to discover brutalism and its influence around the world – from Le Corbusier’s designs in Chandigarh, India, to(...)
How to love Brutalism
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llustrated with drawings by The Brutal Artist, this publication is divided up into a series of mini essays that explains the brutalist world from a human aspect, as well as an architectural, historical and even pop cultural angle. The book journeys from the UK to discover brutalism and its influence around the world – from Le Corbusier’s designs in Chandigarh, India, to Lina Bo Bardi’s buildings in Brazil.
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207 pages : facsimiles, illustrations ; 21 cm
Munich : Hirmer, ©2011.
Le Corbusier : the architect on the beach / Niklas Maak.
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Munich : Hirmer, ©2011.
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This publication is based on archival research and the study of neglected or completely unknown documents. It shows the role of materials and construction techniques in the architecture of Le Corbusier and delves into the project management and the construction of several buildings in the period 1940 – 1965. Each worksite, from the Unité d’Habitation (Housing Unit) in(...)
Architecture Monographs
July 2012
Le Corbusier: béton brut and ineffable space (1940 - 1965): surface materials and psychophysiology of vision
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This publication is based on archival research and the study of neglected or completely unknown documents. It shows the role of materials and construction techniques in the architecture of Le Corbusier and delves into the project management and the construction of several buildings in the period 1940 – 1965. Each worksite, from the Unité d’Habitation (Housing Unit) in Marseille to the city of Chandigarh, and the Tokyo museum, the Carpenter Center in Cambridge and the Unité d'Habitation in Berlin, is analyzed in detail.
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