According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
9 December 1998 to 28 March 1999
Irene F. Whittome: Departure for Katsura
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According to a Chinese legend well-known in Japan, a giant katsura tree was planted on the moon, inspiring the proverb, “We can see the katsura on the moon with our eyes, but we cannot touch it with our hands.” The saying celebrates the quest for an absolute and is a fitting epigraph for Departure for Katsura, which pursues issues of self-identity and personal(...)
Octagonal gallery, hall cases, and Sottsass Room
drawings, textual records
ARCH267676
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Sketches by Pierre Jeanneret depicting studies for dwelling(s) and other building(s), including plans, facades, details, and building materials, as well as furniture. Some sketches are annotated by the artist and include mathematical calculations. It is likely that sketche(s) depict buildings in Chandigarh, India. Further research is required. Also contains: - A drawing depicting a colossus with a foot in Chandigarh and a foot in Durgapur. - Notes pertaning to the construction and design of unidentified buildings. - Notes pertaining to the use of building materials.
between 1951-1962
Sketches by Pierre Jeanneret depicting studies for dwelling(s) and other building(s)
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ARCH267676
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Sketches by Pierre Jeanneret depicting studies for dwelling(s) and other building(s), including plans, facades, details, and building materials, as well as furniture. Some sketches are annotated by the artist and include mathematical calculations. It is likely that sketche(s) depict buildings in Chandigarh, India. Further research is required. Also contains: - A drawing depicting a colossus with a foot in Chandigarh and a foot in Durgapur. - Notes pertaning to the construction and design of unidentified buildings. - Notes pertaining to the use of building materials.
drawings, textual records
between 1951-1962
photographs
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10 photograph(s)
Photographs of Chandigarh
ARCH269673
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Group consists of photographs of Chandigarh, India, including: - Bas-relief of a tree in concrete - Bas-relief of the "Modulor Man" in concrete - The Assembly tower in construction in the Capitol Complex - Detail of the Assembly cornice (2 photographs) - Workers in a scaffolding - Women carrying a basket in their hands - The administration building at the Panjab University in sector 14 - Children and a baby sleeping in a basket - Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Parmeshwari Lal Varma discussing in front of the Chandigarh general layout model
between 1951 and 1965
Photographs of Chandigarh
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ARCH269673
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Group consists of photographs of Chandigarh, India, including: - Bas-relief of a tree in concrete - Bas-relief of the "Modulor Man" in concrete - The Assembly tower in construction in the Capitol Complex - Detail of the Assembly cornice (2 photographs) - Workers in a scaffolding - Women carrying a basket in their hands - The administration building at the Panjab University in sector 14 - Children and a baby sleeping in a basket - Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Parmeshwari Lal Varma discussing in front of the Chandigarh general layout model
photographs
Quantity:
10 photograph(s)
between 1951 and 1965
DR1987:0352
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- The entire site appears at lower left, sketched in graphite with the amphibian landing, dock, hangars and airplane circulation route highlighted in India ink. This sketch, and the others on this sheet that deal with the path taxiing airplanes will follow in picking up and depositing passengers at the station, are part of a series of eight drawings (DR1987:0347 - DR1987:0349, DR1987:0352 - DR1987:0354, DR1987:0358 and DR1987:0390). For a more detailed discussion of this drawing and its relationship to others in this series, consult Shubert.
architecture
1929
Lehigh Airports Competition Entry: Sketch plan for the airport showing alternate designs for airplane circulation
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DR1987:0352
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- The entire site appears at lower left, sketched in graphite with the amphibian landing, dock, hangars and airplane circulation route highlighted in India ink. This sketch, and the others on this sheet that deal with the path taxiing airplanes will follow in picking up and depositing passengers at the station, are part of a series of eight drawings (DR1987:0347 - DR1987:0349, DR1987:0352 - DR1987:0354, DR1987:0358 and DR1987:0390). For a more detailed discussion of this drawing and its relationship to others in this series, consult Shubert.
architecture
articles
A Matter of Terms
Critical Cataloguing, Pierre Jeanneret, CCA archive, United Africa Company, terminology, archival descriptions, changing terms, peon, Chandigarh, India
23 May 2023
A Matter of Terms
Jennifer Préfontaine, Michele Tenzon, Ewan Harrison, Iain Jackson, Claire Tunstall, and Rixt Woudstra discuss changing terms in archival descriptions
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textual records
AP206.S2.074
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.072 and AP206.S2.073. This file includes the following papers: "Le Corbusier's Chandigarh: Architecture in the Cultural Context," symposium talk, 1990 "Why not Ruralisation," paper outline "Growing Problems of Cities," book review of "The Politics of Urban Redevelopment: A Study of Old Delhi by Ajay K. Mehra," 1991 "Housing as Consumer Commodity," book review of "Housing and Urbanisation: A Study of India by Cedric Pugh," 1991 "Air Pollution and Conservation of the Environment," speech
1986-1998
Published and unpublished papers (folder 3 of 3)
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AP206.S2.074
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.072 and AP206.S2.073. This file includes the following papers: "Le Corbusier's Chandigarh: Architecture in the Cultural Context," symposium talk, 1990 "Why not Ruralisation," paper outline "Growing Problems of Cities," book review of "The Politics of Urban Redevelopment: A Study of Old Delhi by Ajay K. Mehra," 1991 "Housing as Consumer Commodity," book review of "Housing and Urbanisation: A Study of India by Cedric Pugh," 1991 "Air Pollution and Conservation of the Environment," speech
textual records
1986-1998
photographs
Quantity:
10 photograph(s)
Photographs of Chandigarh
ARCH269671
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Group consists of photographs of Chandigarh, India, including: - Model makers at work (2 photographs) - Portrait of Pierre Jeanneret - Pierre Jeanneret and Jawaharlal Nehru at Gandhi Bhawan inauguration - Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Parmeshwari Lal Varma discussing in front of the Chandigarh general layout model - Pierre Jeanneret sitting on the branch of a tree with three unidentified men - Sketches by Le Corbusier - Woman standing near a rural home - Two women walking away with baskets in their hands - A man and a child plowing the ground with two oxen
between 1951 and 1965
Photographs of Chandigarh
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ARCH269671
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Group consists of photographs of Chandigarh, India, including: - Model makers at work (2 photographs) - Portrait of Pierre Jeanneret - Pierre Jeanneret and Jawaharlal Nehru at Gandhi Bhawan inauguration - Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Parmeshwari Lal Varma discussing in front of the Chandigarh general layout model - Pierre Jeanneret sitting on the branch of a tree with three unidentified men - Sketches by Le Corbusier - Woman standing near a rural home - Two women walking away with baskets in their hands - A man and a child plowing the ground with two oxen
photographs
Quantity:
10 photograph(s)
between 1951 and 1965
photographs
Quantity:
10 photograph(s)
Photographs of Chandigarh
ARCH269675
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Group consists of photographs of Chandigarh, India, including: - Circuit House in sector 6 - Post Graduate Institute for Medical Research in sector 12 - Water storage in sector 19 - Exterior stair of an House Type-4J in sector 5 - House Type-4J in sector 5 - Unidentified Higher Secondary school in sector 20 (2 photographs) - A woman and a child sitting in front of an unidentified house - People bathing in a pool in front a an unidentified building in construction - Young girls playing in front of the Carmel Convent School in sector 5
between 1951 and 1965
Photographs of Chandigarh
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ARCH269675
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Group consists of photographs of Chandigarh, India, including: - Circuit House in sector 6 - Post Graduate Institute for Medical Research in sector 12 - Water storage in sector 19 - Exterior stair of an House Type-4J in sector 5 - House Type-4J in sector 5 - Unidentified Higher Secondary school in sector 20 (2 photographs) - A woman and a child sitting in front of an unidentified house - People bathing in a pool in front a an unidentified building in construction - Young girls playing in front of the Carmel Convent School in sector 5
photographs
Quantity:
10 photograph(s)
between 1951 and 1965
Project
AP156.S3.SS3.D12
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Le dossier documente le projet non réalisé de Le Corbusier pour le Musée de la Connaissance, dans le secteur 1 à Chandigarh, Inde. Aussi connu sous le nom de Musée à croissance illimitée, ce projet avait été imaginé dès les années 1930 par Le Corbusier, en collaboration avec Pierre Jeanneret, avant qu'une version ne soit projetée pour Chandigarh. Un plan similaire sera également utilisé dans d'autres designs de musées par Le Corbusier. Le matériel dans ce dossier a été produit entre 1959 et 1964. Le dossier contient des dessins et des reprographies de dessin d'exécution et de dessin de présentation, ainsi qu'un album contenant des plans et des coupes du Musée. Le dossier comprend aussi des documents textuels, dont de la correspondance et un texte par Le Corbusier au sujet de son projet de Musée. File documents Le Corbusier's unrealized project for the Museum of Knowledge in sector 1 in Chandigarh, India. Also known as the Museum of Unlimited Growth, this project had been imagined as early as the 1930s by Le Corbusier, in collaboration with Pierre Jeanneret, before a version was planned for Chandigarh. A similar plan will also be used in later museum designs by Le Corbusier. Material in this file was produced between 1959 and 1964. The file contains drawings and reprographic copies of working drawing and presentation drawing, and an album containing plans and sections for the Museum. The file also contains textual records, including correspondence and a text by Le Corbusier about his Museum's project.
1959-1964
Musée de la Connaissance, Secteur 1 = Museum of Knowledge, Sector 1
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AP156.S3.SS3.D12
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Le dossier documente le projet non réalisé de Le Corbusier pour le Musée de la Connaissance, dans le secteur 1 à Chandigarh, Inde. Aussi connu sous le nom de Musée à croissance illimitée, ce projet avait été imaginé dès les années 1930 par Le Corbusier, en collaboration avec Pierre Jeanneret, avant qu'une version ne soit projetée pour Chandigarh. Un plan similaire sera également utilisé dans d'autres designs de musées par Le Corbusier. Le matériel dans ce dossier a été produit entre 1959 et 1964. Le dossier contient des dessins et des reprographies de dessin d'exécution et de dessin de présentation, ainsi qu'un album contenant des plans et des coupes du Musée. Le dossier comprend aussi des documents textuels, dont de la correspondance et un texte par Le Corbusier au sujet de son projet de Musée. File documents Le Corbusier's unrealized project for the Museum of Knowledge in sector 1 in Chandigarh, India. Also known as the Museum of Unlimited Growth, this project had been imagined as early as the 1930s by Le Corbusier, in collaboration with Pierre Jeanneret, before a version was planned for Chandigarh. A similar plan will also be used in later museum designs by Le Corbusier. Material in this file was produced between 1959 and 1964. The file contains drawings and reprographic copies of working drawing and presentation drawing, and an album containing plans and sections for the Museum. The file also contains textual records, including correspondence and a text by Le Corbusier about his Museum's project.
Dossier 12
1959-1964
textual records
AP206.S2.066
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.065, AP206.S2.067 and AP206.S2.068. This file includes the following papers: "The Politics of Urban Redevelopment: A Study of Old Delhi by Ajay K. Mehra," book review "Environmental Management of Mining Operations Human Settlements and Rehabilitation of Population," 1986 "Reminiscences of Education in Pre-independence India," 1997 "The Pedestrian, the Rickshaw and the Motor Vehicle" "Chandigarh: As I see it" "Conservation is our Future" "Sikh Architecture by PS Arshi," review "The Aftermath of Vistara" "Random Thoughts on Architectural Education"
1985-1997
Published and unpublished papers (folder 2 of 4)
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AP206.S2.066
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File was originally housed in a binder along with content arranged in AP206.S2.065, AP206.S2.067 and AP206.S2.068. This file includes the following papers: "The Politics of Urban Redevelopment: A Study of Old Delhi by Ajay K. Mehra," book review "Environmental Management of Mining Operations Human Settlements and Rehabilitation of Population," 1986 "Reminiscences of Education in Pre-independence India," 1997 "The Pedestrian, the Rickshaw and the Motor Vehicle" "Chandigarh: As I see it" "Conservation is our Future" "Sikh Architecture by PS Arshi," review "The Aftermath of Vistara" "Random Thoughts on Architectural Education"
textual records
1985-1997