It had been the second city to host them after the first Olympics ... designs that strive for social living reforms such as in Le Corbusier’s experimental works or Lacaton & Vassal’s ...

In 1925 Le Corbusier, the Swiss-French architect and ... and with advances in technology. What does the future hold for cities and for the two-thirds of us who’ll live in them by 2050?

The Bauhaus movement, founded by Walter Gropius in Germany in 1919, rejected ornamentation in favour of clean, geometric ...

At Chandigarh College of Architecture, the talk ‘Baghdad as seen from Chandigarh: The thwarted architecture of dream cities’ drew parallels between Le ... city’s dry climate, preserving ...

The World Heritage Committee – in its 40th session, held at Istanbul, Turkey, earlier this month – has accepted the transnational serial nomination of 17 sites designed by the Swiss-French architect ...