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Chandigarh - living with Le Corbusier

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Chandigarh - living with Le Corbusier

Sujet

Le Corbusier, Chandigarh, ville nouvelle, photographie, urbanité, Högner Bärbel

Description

Abstract from the publisher :
 
In the nineteen-fifties the architectural profession turned its gaze towards India where Le Corbusier had been commissioned to build an ideal modern city. Today, Chandigarh is a pulsating metropolis while, at the same time, the originally planned city was able to retain its garden city character. In her extensive urban portrait, the photographer and ethnologist Bärbel Högner investigates the alleged contradiction between European modernism and Indian lifestyle. This book presents a range of photographs and texts that exemplify the local modernism of the gesamtkunstwerk that is Chandigarh. With ethnographic flair, the author looks at the adoption of the star architect’s systems of rules and regulations. Alternating between architecture and scenes from daily life, her images paint a multifaceted picture of Living with Le Corbusier in this unique planned city in India.
 
Bärbel Högner is a photographer and social anthropologist who has taught at universities including the University of Heidelberg.
 

Créateur

Bärbel Högner

Éditeur

Jovis Verlag

Date

October 2010

Format

176

Type

Ouvrage