But it was a long and arduous journey to get to this point. In the early 1960s, the city of Zurich hatched a plan to celebrate Swiss architect Le Corbusier.

In 1907, Le Corbusier travelled to Italy and then to Vienna. Around 1908, he went to Paris and worked as a draftsman under the famous Austrian architect Auguste Perret.

Dr S S Bhatti, former principal of Chandigarh College of Architecture Although Le Corbusier is a household name in the City Beautiful, not many Chandigarhians and Indians know the magnificence and ...

Le Corbusier, Herzog & De Meuron, Mario Botta and Peter Zumthor – to mention only the most prominent names – have put Swiss architecture on the world map. The younger generation has not yet ...

Can Chandigarh, where Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier fully realised his modernist vision, provide the template for India’s future urban growth?

Architect Snehal Shah, who was in the city for Le Corbusier's 125th anniversary week celebrations, said planners should have gone beyond what Le Corbusier did in the construction of Chandigarh.

It is like no other`. Now it was. Given Le Corbusier`s insistence on checking typesetting of the first German edition, and his engagement with the `physique` of his books (described by Catherine de ...

Architect Philipp Mohr has led the renovation of an apartment at Le Corbusier’s iconic Unite d’Habitation in Berlin, carried out to the architect’s original design. Over the course of two ...

CHANDIGARH: Even as Le Corbusier-designed City Beautiful is recognized the world over for being the Mecca of modern architecture, there is an immediate need to look forward to the contemporary ...