1. Unadulterated Modernism
Making Chandigarh
Swissnex@San Francisco July 2010
Dr. Vikramāditya Prakāsh
Professor of Architecture
Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture

12. “Let this be a new city,
unfettered by the past, a symbol
of the nation's faith in the
future.”
Jawaharlal Nehru, 1951
at the inauguration of Chandigarh
Nehru’s Chandigarh – Story of Secularism

13. India’s independence/partition, 1947

15. A religious reading of Europa

18. Made by the first generation of
INDIAN MODERNISTS

26. The Nehruvian city in the Age of
Globalization

28. Tagore Theatre (1962), Aditya Prakash

66. Emerging patches of light
pollutione

69. What’s next? The Future Anterior…
Governor’s Palace (“Museum of Knowledge”) by Le Corbusier

73. Governor’s Palace was refused by Nehru

74. New Delhi

76. Museum of Knowlege(as proposed)

80. Dr. Gaurav Chhabra