Le Corbusier Research Paper

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Le Corbusier worked with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret and architects Jean Drew and Maxwell Fry, who stayed in India until the plan swung into action and the city of Chandigarh was built. The city was planned on a rectangular grid adapted to field conditions. The areas are divided into sectors and have connecting streets and highways passing through them. Le Corbusier personally designed the government building, the Capitol. His béton brut, the un-rendered surfaces of the buildings, still showing the marks of the rough shuttering, and the expressive and sculptural effect made by solitaire monuments spread over a large area, came as something of a shock to the Indian architects, who had found a new hero for themselves from now on.

Le Corbusier’s work became an inspiration for the following generation, who recognised his work to be intellectual and of a new dimension. Le Corbusier was commissioned to build more villas and a museum in India, after his work in Chandigarh. During this time he came across an Indian architect, who had already worked for him in Paris, Balkrishna …show more content…

He was inspired by the masters of the modern architecture, Le Corbusier and Loius Kahn and initiated his work while they were both working in India. He worked on the memorial for Mahatma Gandhi in Ahmedabad in 1963, which is reminiscent of Kahn’s design for the Trenton Bath House and is an evidence of Correa’s mature work. The most important buildings designed by him after that were his Kanchanjunga high-rise apartments in Mumbai(1970 –1983), The government building in Bhopal(1980 – 1996) and The art centre in Jaipur(1986 – 1992) where he discovered the spiritual dimension of Indian notion and fused it into his work. Correa was the town-planner for the city of Navi-Mumbai (then, New Bombay). He created an urban area with low-rise buildings and open spaces that complemented to create a sense of community for people living across

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