[online] Chandigarh: 60 years after Le Corbusier
[online] Chandigarh : 60 years after Le Corbusier Lecture
Monday 23 February at 6.30pm – 8pm
In August 1965, Le Corbusier died on his daily swim in the Mediterranean. His cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, packed his bags in Chandigarh to fly home to attend his cousin’s funeral. That was the end of the involvement in the Indian city of the international group of architects who had worked on the Capitol Complex project from the beginning of the 1950s.
Sixty years later the city has one of the highest per capita incomes and ranks amongst the highest Human Development Index among all Indian states and territories. In 2015, a survey by LG Electronics ranked it as the happiest city in India.
Now a Chandigarh regular, Ian Macready explores whether this extraordinary experiment to bring secular modernism to a dusty plain northwest of the capital Delhi has been a success. He looks at some of the problems it will face as it balances conservation with pressure for new development.
Ian Macready, after more than 30 years working in the London design industry, now operates small group tours to India.
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C20 Society Member £6;
Non-Member £8;
Young C20 member free*;
Student £4 **
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Note: This event is hybrid and is being run both in-person at Cowcross Street Gallery and online via Zoom. The event will be recorded and offered as a catch-up lecture for those who have booked and will be available for two weeks.
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Image above: Chandigarh Palace of Assembly entrance door painted by Le Corbusier. Photo by Rajnish Wattas.