Chandigarh Revealed: Le Corbusier’s City Today

Prakash skillfully unforlds the intricate layers of the Capitol’s symbolism, tracing the cultural preconceptions and influences that produced Le Corbusier’s understanding of India and animated his obsessions, desires, and aspirations. Chandigarh’s Le Corbusier is the story of the making of an Indian modern architecture as both an aspect and an engine of postcolonial culture. Vikramaditya Prakash is associate dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington.