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Officialspeak: Corbusier was reluctant to take up Chandigarh project, reveals memoir

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“I was offered the Chandigarh Project at the Indian Coffee house at London in 1949 by the first high commissioner of Independent India, VK Krishna Menon,” says Chandigarh’s first Indian chief architect MN Sharma in his memoirs — Making of Chandigarh: Le Corbusier and after.

UT administrator Kaptan Singh Solanki released the memoirs on the 93rd birth birthday of the architect on Thursday.


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