Design implements by the famous architects Le - Corbusier and Louis I Kahn Introduction Chandigarh city Sectors Housing Commercial Roads IIM design

1. HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
 Influence of Le-Corbusier & Louis I Kahn

2. • In 1951 the government of the Punjab named him architectural advisor for the construction of
its new capital, Chandigarh. For the first time in his life, Le Corbusier was able to apply his
principles of city planning on a metropolitan scale.
• Totally without reference to local tradition he designed the Palace of Justice, the Secretariat,
and the Palace of the Assembly. Unfinished concrete, with windows sheltered by enormous
concrete sunshades, the sculptural facades, sloping rooflines, and monumental ramps are
principal elements of his architecture, which immediately influenced architects all over the
world.
• Most of the buildings are in pure, cubical form, geometrically subdivided with emphasis on
proportion, scale and detail.
INTRODUCTION

3. The City Of Chandigarh Is Planned
To Human Scale -
 Head–capitol (place of power)
 Heart –the city centre
 Stomach–the commercial area
 Arms–university and Industrial zone
 Lungs–leisure valley ,open spaces
 Arteries–network of roads

5. ASSEMBLY HALL
THE HIGH COURT
THE SECRETARIAT

6. SECTORS
• The key of modern urbanism is 'the Sector', which was defined
as a container of family life (24 solar hours: night and day).
• Each sector was 800 meters by 1,200 meters, enclosed by roads
allocated to fast-mechanized transport and sealed to direct
access from the houses.
• The population would be approximately from 5,000 to 20,000
inhabitants.
• Chandigarh had 30 sectors.

9. HOUSING
• The residential buildings were governed
by a mechanism known as 'frame control'
created by the municipal administration
to control their facades.
• This fixed the building line and height and
the use of building materials. Certain
standard sizes of doors and windows are
specified and all the gates and boundary
walls must conform to standard design.
• The idea was to ensure that the view from
the street, which belonged to the
community, was of same visual order and
discipline to maintain uniformity.

10. COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS  All buildings located in the City Centre
and commercial or institutional
buildings located along V-2 roads
were subjected to controls.
 The system of the City Centre was
based on a grid of columns. fixed 5.26
meters shuttering pattern on concrete
and a system of glazing or screen
walls behind the line of columns.
 The interior planning was left to the
owners. and in the exterior, certain
variations are permitted to give
variety to the architectural
composition

11. ROADS
 V-1 Fast roads connecting
Chandigarh to other towns;
 V-2 Arterial roads;
 V-3 Fast vehicular roads;
 V-4 Free Flowing shopping
streets;
 V-5 Sector circulation roads;
 V-6 Access roads to houses;
 V-7 Footpaths and cycle
tracks

12. LOUIS KAHN
• Born February 20, 1901 on Saaremaa Island
in Kuressaare.
• Kahn's Jewish parents immigrated to the
United States in 1906.
• His given name at birth was Itze-Leib
Schmuilowsky but was changed upon
arrival in the US. Kahn's architecture is
notable for its simple, platonic forms and
compositions.
• Through the use of brick and poured-in
place concrete masonry, he developed a
contemporary and monumental
architecture that maintained a sympathy
for the site.

13. • While rooted in the International Style,
Kahn's architecture was an amalgam of his
Beaux Arts education and a personal
aesthetic impulse to develop his own
architectural forms.
• Kahn received the AIA Gold Medal in 1971
and the RIBA Gold Medal in 1972.
• Louis Kahn is considered one of the
foremost architects of the late twentieth
century.
• On March 17, 1974, he died of a heart
attack in a men's restroom in
Pennsylvania Station in New York City.

14. Education/ Occupation
• He attended the University of Pennsylvania and received his Bachelors
degree in architecture at the age of 24.
• After college, he worked as a senior draftsman in the office of
Philadelphia City Architect John Molitor.
• To find his inspiration, he traveled through Europe visiting castles and
medieval strongholds in 1928, only 4 years after graduating.
• He finally started his own firm in 1935.
• While he still designed and worked as a design critic on the side, Louis
became a professor of architecture at Yale school of Architecture.

15. Personal designs
Kahn created many unique an intricate buildings, but among
his most memorable were…
• The Yale University Art gallery: 1951.
• The Jonas Salk institute for Biological Studies: 1965
• The Margaret Esherick house: 1961
• The National Assembly building: 1962
Louis Kahn’s works in India :
• Indian Institute of Management,Ahemedabad
• Institute of Public Administration

16. Indian Institute of Management,Ahemedabad
• It was an exponent of exposed-brick
architecture.
• The most distinctive feature of the plan
was the numerous arches and square
brick structures with
• Those original prototypes could be
found in the residential areas even
today.
• Huge open spaces depict the freedom
thought, the principles that this
institute stand for.

17. • The most awe-inspiring and photographed view is that of the
main academic block which is built as a huge monolith.
• The dorms are connected to the main complex by a series of
arched corridors and landscaped courts.
• The 132 feet long underpass connects the old campus to the new.

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