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Les Corbusier designed the State Legislative Building for Chandigarh, capital of Punjab and Haryana states. Completed in 1961, this Brutalist concrete structure embodied classic modernist principles of form and function.
The city’s master plan functioned like a human body, with organs and complex systems. Corbusier separated function types into zones, political, industrial, commercial, and educational. A large grid aligned buildings, and each indivitual building had its grid to to form a rational arrangement of space. Traditional Indian architecture led Corbusier to invent a shading device that is now common to be seen: Brise soleil. The assembly chamber erupts from the top of the rectangular building like a volcano. The front facade rolls back like a tidal wave from this eruption. Repetitive structural elements fit in around these symbolic elements, and an outer skin of shading devices crown the exterior. |
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