Author : Hasan-Uddin Khan
Publisher : Mapin Publishing Pvt
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,8 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780944142776
The book examines lessons offered by Le Corbusier s architecture and planning of India s model city, Chandigarh, from today s perspective.
Author : Shaun Fynn
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2017-04-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781935677703
The unlikely story of Le Corbusier and Chandigarh has proven itself to be one of modernisms boldest experiments. Born of a vision of a modern India, Chandigarhdesigned by Le Corbusierwas created as a statement for an emerging modern nationstate. Its Capitol Complex, considered by many as Le Corbusiers masterpiece, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016. Like all visionaries, Le Corbusier was adept at taking the iconic and symbolic and using them to fashion his own unique vocabulary. This volume explores 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 buildings across Chandigarh, the author illuminates the compositional poetry evident in Le Corbusiers structures and the ways in which the patina of time has changed the city. A visceral journey through a remarkable modernist landscape using the photographic medium, Chandigarh Revealed pays homage to the works of a master with reflective observations of a living city.
Author : Russell Walden
Publisher : Cambridge : MIT Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
The fourteen essays are by Russell Walden, Paul Turner, Patricia Sekler, Maurice Favre, Brian Taylor, Charles Jencks, Anthony Sutcliffe, Robert Fishman, Martin Purdy, John Winter, Maxwell Fry, Jane Drew, Madhu Sarin, and Stanislaus von Moos.
Author : Shanay Jhaveri
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788190472074
This work tells the stories of the city of Chandigarh through the works of Indian and Western artists. It contains 250 works by Indian and Western artists, including many hitherto unpublished photographs from films on Chandigarh.
Author : Hélène Bauchet-Cauquil
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9782909187075
Illustrated with photographs dating from the time period to the present, this book documents the architectural project and the production of the furniture, offering a definitive summary of this epic modernist enterprise. A further chapter is dedicated to the work of Lucien Hervé, the famous architectural photographer who depicted the city extensively. The architect, urban planner, painter, writer, designer and theorist Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was born in Switzerland in 1887. In 1922 Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret opened an architectural studio in Paris, inaugurating a partnership that would last until 1940. They began experimenting with furniture design after inviting the architect Charlotte Perriand to join the studio in 1928. After World War II, they sought efficient ways to house large numbers of people in response to the urban housing crisis.
Author : Vikramaditya Prakash
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 2020-11
Category :
ISBN : 9788494234293
Author : Rainer W. Schlegelmilch
Publisher : TeNeues
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9783832796570
*** Reduced from $210.00 while stocks last *** Starting in the late 1960s but especially in the 70s, the most innovative Italian coachbuilders from Bertone to Pininfarina followed a radical design path. With fantastical wedge-shaped speedsters, their goal was nothing less than reimagining the car. Many of their ideas--as reflected in the concept vehicles in this book--ended up on the scrap heap of design history, while other concepts have remained influential up to the present. Rainer W. Schlegelmilch, best known for his spectacular Formula 1 photography, captured all of this 70s explosion of automotive creativity with his unique photographic eye. With his artful staging, the angular concept car silhouettes took on the curvy and alluring forms of models. Through these futuristic design concepts from the 70s, we get even closer to the spirit of that decade--one that continues to hold us in its thrall. Text in English, German and French SELLING POINTS: *Contains all important background information on the cars featured: how they came about and what became of them ILLUSTRATIONS: 180 colour photographs
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Ahmadābād (India)
ISBN :
Author : Le Corbusier
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0486250237
This pioneering proclamation by the great architect expounds Le Corbusier's technical and aesthetic theories, views on industry, economics, the relation of form to function, "mass-production spirit," and much more. Profusely illustrated with over 200 line drawings and photographs of Le Corbusier's buildings and other important structures.
Author : Jacques Dworczak
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,97 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Architect-designed furniture
ISBN : 9781614286998
"The City of Chandigarh puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach." - Le Corbusier Upon India's independence, Jawaharlal Nehru, its first Prime Minister, dreamed of "a new town, an expression of the nation's faith in the future." The incarnation of Nehru's vision, the city of Chandigarh was the brainchild of renowned modernist architect Le Corbusier, born of his utopian dream of an avant-garde city, and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, who oversaw production of thousands of objects that furnished it. Recently, record prices at auction for these pieces have brought awareness of this great project and its creators to a broader public. This catalogue raisonne sheds new light on this visionary urban project that is generating growing interest among design aficionados around the world. 400 illustrations
