Chandigarh's Le Corbusier: the struggle for modernity in postcolonial India/

Main Author: Prakash, Vikramaditya
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle: University of Washington Press, [c2002]
Series:Studies in modernity and national identity
Subjects:
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300 |a vii, 178 p. :  |b ill. (some col.) ;  |c 26 cm. 
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505 1 |a Introduction: the "East-West" opposition in Chandigarh's Le Corbusier -- The master plan: Contesting conceptions of the modern -- The Capitol Complex: The Rousseauesque Garden of Eden -- The Capitol buildings: The aesthetics of the High Court and the Assembly -- With open hands: Architectural symbolism and the vagaries of political claims -- Afterword: Notes on inheriting a postcolonial modernism. 
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