Street Movie of Chandigarh
Regos@free.fr Lille3000
40 min 31 sec – Mar 20, 2007
Le Corbusier designed the city of Chandigarh making it one of the few examples of pure modernist urban planning by a celebrated architect and a reference point to assess the validity of ideas that are more difficult to criticize on paper.
Images of Chandigarh, like Brasilia, tend to be stock photos just after it was built, so it is fascinating to see it as it is today, in the flesh, semi-decayed and ultimately something of a testament to the failure and naivity of Le Corbusier as a planner.