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...Corbusier, or with prestigious Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa, designers of Brazil's new capital, Brasilia. Seventy-five-year-old Le Corbusier?having published theoretical plans for doing over Barcelona, Bogotá, Algiers, Antwerp, Buenos Aires and Paris?is watching a city he designed rise in India on the flat Punjab plain 150 miles north of New Delhi. Brick and concrete Chandigarh, new capital of the Punjab state, will hold 500,000 people when completed (urban services become inefficient when cities get any bigger, "Corbu" thinks), and the city's first phase, housing 150,000, is more than half finished. Chandigarh...
...Punjab, India, Peace Corpsmen arrived to find that the U.S. foreign aid program had purchased an electric wheat-grinding machine months ago for the natives' use. Unfortunately, it had sat idle ever since. Reason: the electric cord had a flat-pronged American-style plug instead of the round-pronged plug needed in India. The Peace Corpsman merely chopped off the American plug, grafted on an Indian plug, and put the machine to work to the great gratification of the whole community...
During the last ten years Le Corbusier has also designed Chandigarh, the new capital city of India's Punjab province, and large superblock apartment houses in Marseilles and Nantes; these three projects embody the radical concepts of city planning which Le Corbusier first developed in the 1920s...
This outline took form in Chandigarh in the early 1950s, which the Indian government commissioned Le Corbusier to design as a state capital replacing Lahore which India lost to Pakistan in the division of the Punjab in 1947. The new city already has 150,000 residents, and will expand later to a half million...
...closer the fine details and the wonderful inlays of marble." Some time later, Yamasaki visited Le Corbusier's High Court at Chandigarh, that completely new town built on the hot plains north of New Delhi to provide an Indian capital for the divided state of Punjab (which had lost Lahore to Pakistan). The High Court stands behind a reflection pool, is topped by a massive over hang supported by soaring concrete columns. From a distance, the building seemed "absolutely magnificent," Yamasaki reported. "But as you come closer, it becomes over powering. Its concrete surfaces are brutally crude." To Yamasaki...