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...world's architects come to see what is going on in Chandigarh," said India's Prime Minister Nehru. Then, before a vast crowd of officials, clerks, laborers, housewives and children, Nehru troweled mortar from a silver bowl and set the cornerstone for a gigantic, tower-topped legislative hall. The building will be the latest major edifice to get under way in the new capital of the Punjab, a site that only seven years ago was a cluster of mud hut villages on the grassy plain southwest of the Himalayas. Now one-third completed, Chandigarh (pop. 50,000) ranks...
Judges of What? But behind the glowing words of Jawaharlal Nehru all is not well in Chandigarh. Some of the clients are in strong disagreement with the architect-a man described by Nehru as "one of the world's great men"-France's dogmatic, bespectacled Le Corbusier, 70. The first of "Corbu's" Chandigarh buildings-the massive, sculptural High Court-has won ringing praise from architects and critics. But the men who use it most, the High Court judges, have handed down some sharp dissents...
Although they complain about these features of their new capital, the people of Chandigarh are gradually developing a local pride, and are beginning to look down on other Indian cities. They take pleasure in pointing out in New Delhi some architectural features, e.g., sun-breakers and louvers, copied from Chandigarh. Architect Le Corbusier, often the center of controversy, claims to dislike the furor, but clearly is not surprised by it. "I am like a lightning conductor," he declares. "I attract storms...
...world's most handsome showcases of what's new in modern low-cost architecture. Pick of the new buildings: ¶ From France, Le Corbusier, designer of Marseille's Radiant City (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948 et seq.) and India's new city of Chandigarh (TIME, June 8, 1953), submitted the most controversial project of all. In an effort to win over Europe's most famed architect, Berlin city officials agreed to waive low unit costs, promised Le Corbusier a top commission, drew the line only when plans for his 300-apartment building showed ceilings only...
...delegation waited on Le Corbusier in Paris, got a brusque turndown from the master. But soon afterwards Le Corbusier showed up in Ronchamp. climbed Haut Lieu, and after peering around the site, began making quick architectural notes. For Le Corbusier, who is currently building a new capital city at Chandigarh in India's Punjab (TIME, June 8, 1953) and erecting a second edition of his much-discussed Marseille "radiant city" outside Nantes, the opportunity to build his first church was irresistible. What particularly caught his interest was the problem of designing a building to accommodate a handful of worshipers...