Abstract
The neighborhood unit (Sector) in Chandigarh was conceived as a self-sufficient, repeated element to create the matrix of the city along with the hierarchical circulation system defined by the 7Vs to disburse traffic in an orderly manner. This arrangement was interfaced with a designed landscape at the behest of Le Corbusier and Dr. M. S. Randhawa whose passion for bio-aesthetics realized a city where landscape and built forms created a patina of the most charming capital of the modern world. Seven decades later, the city’s flowering landscape and modernist architecture continues to make it one of the best neighborhoods in which to reside
Keywords
Modern Movement,
Modern architecture,
Modern housing,
Post-war housing,
Welfare architecture,
Mass housing,
Indian modern architecture,
Chandigarh,
Le Corbusier,
Pierre Jeanneret,
Maxwell Fry,
Jane Drew,
Landscape architecture.
Issue 65
Year 2021
Pages 104-107
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/65.A.YB2MNCH1