Chandigarh Government Building

Artist/Designer: Charles-Édouard Corbusier (Jeanneret-Gris)

Project Location: Chandigarh, India

Figure 1: High Courts, Chandigargh ( Source | Accessed : January 4, 2017 )

Figure 2: Golden Section ( Source | Accessed : January 4, 2017 )

Figure 3: Exterior, Chandigargh

Figure 4: Exterior Detail Chandigargh ( Source | Accessed : January 4, 2017 )

Style/Period(s):
Modern

Primary Material(s):
Concrete

Function(s):
Government

Related Website(s):

Medievalism and Le Corbusier, by Wayne R. Dynes | Accessed : January 4, 2017

The Vernacular, Modernism, and Le Corbusier, by Francesco Passanti | Accessed : January 4, 2017

Le Corbusier and Modernist Movement, by Stan Allen | Accessed : February 21, 2017

Significant Date(s):
20th Century, 1955, 1960

Additional Information:
Zaknic, Ivan. Le Corbusier – Pavillon Suisse: The Biography of a Building/Biographie d'un bâtiment. Boston: Birkhäuser Basel, 2004.

Frampton, Kenneth. Le Corbusier. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2001.

Vedrenne, Elizabeth. Le Corbusier. New York: Assouline, 2004.

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