Le Corbusier

Album Punjab, 1951

Maristella Casciato

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Lars Muller Publishers
13 February 2024

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Sketches and notes for Chandigarh from Le Corbusier's first reconnaissance trip to India.

This facsimile edition of the notebook kept by Le Corbusier (18871965) from his two-week stay in the area that would become Chandigarh, the new capital city of the Indian state of Punjab, presents his written or sketched memos and personal reflections as well as notes and schematic solutions elaborated during meetings. Album Punjab constitutes a primary source for reconstructing the topics addressed by the small group of planners and governmental officials who in only a few days developed the outlines of the Chandigarh plan.

The spiralbound notebook facsimile is accompanied by a paperback volume featuring previously unpublished photographs taken by Le Corbusier's cousin Pierre Jeanneret during the journey. He documented the landscape and people that the architects encountered upon their arrival - a scenario destined to totally change with the birth of the great city. A detailed commentary by architectural historian Maristella Casciato is also included. The two volumes are housed in a slipcase.

AUTHOR: Maristella Casciato is a senior curator and head of architecture collections at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was an architect, urban planner, designer and theorist, and an originator of the modernist architecture movement, which emphasised function over form .

Two-volume set in a transparent slipcase that includes a facsimile edition of the author's sketchbook (spiral-bound, the last unpublished item in Getty's Le Corbusier archive) and a larger book of photos and commentary (paperback)

30 illustrations

Edited by: Maristella Casciato
Imprint: Lars Muller Publishers
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 315mm, Width: 235mm,
ISBN: 9783037787069
ISBN 10: 3037787066
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 13 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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Le Corbusier

Album Punjab, 1951

Maristella Casciato

$160

Hardback

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