The case of Chandigarh

With the endorsement of the Association of architects, landscape architects, planners and custodians of the Province of Trento.

The 7v concept, the Open Hand, Capitol Complex and the Tower of shadows: parts of a city that has become a legend and that many believe has nothing more to say. Instead Chandigarh still has much to recount. A city founded on Nehru’s wishes as a new capital for the Punjab following the independence of India and the division from Pakistan, its regular layout was planned at the beginning of the 1950s by Le Corbusier, a Swiss architect, who created his concept of the ideal city, a city based on European town-planning and social models that over the course of the years has been transformed through the daily life of the population. Like a medieval city freed of its walls - passing from protection to cage - Chandigarh would seem to have overcome some of the limitations that Le Corbusier imposed on it. It is an exhibition that reflects on how the original plan for the city, dropped into the Indian context, has been modified by the living and active social fabric.

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