{"id":575,"date":"2020-02-01T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gobetween.wpengine.com\/?p=575"},"modified":"2020-08-05T16:22:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T16:22:43","slug":"corrina-summers-contested-spaces-capturing-modernist-architecture-in-postcolonial-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/2020\/02\/01\/corrina-summers-contested-spaces-capturing-modernist-architecture-in-postcolonial-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrina Summers: Contested Spaces &#8211; Capturing Modernist Architecture in Postcolonial India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Audio Version<\/h2>\n<p>Read by Christopher Williams<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: Contested Spaces: Capturing Modernist Architecture In Postcolonial India\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/2BOYd1kwCrsd5i1JHHKEiY?si=ewJYjlIqSoSw_9-HMIPcfg&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Text Version<\/h2>\n<p>A sense of \u201cdoubleness\u201d pervades the photographs contained within the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute, the bulk of the collection comprising of photographs of other works of art. While the majority of its million photographs feature architecture as their central focus, some of the most striking images in the collection feature human subjects, thrusting ideas about the relationship between the aesthetics of architecture and its social function into the foreground. This hybridity is especially evident in the photographs of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chandigarh\">Chandigarh<\/a> in northern India, taken by both members of the architectural design team and professional photographers in its construction and early existence in the 1950s and 1960s.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-630\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-630\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/files\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F002_010.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white photo of Chandigarh's Royal Assembly building by Le Corbusier.\" width=\"600\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F002_010.jpg 942w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F002_010-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F002_010-804x1024.jpg 804w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F002_010-768x978.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CON_B04391_F002_010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With construction beginning in 1952, Chandigarh is a city born out of independence and partition. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jawaharlal_Nehru\">Jawaharlal Nehru<\/a>, the first Prime Minister of India, ordered the creation of the city as a new capital for the new Haryana and East Punjab states of India that had been formed in the aftermath of independence; the former capital of the old state of Punjab, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lahore\">Lahore<\/a>, had been lost to the new nation of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pakistan\">Pakistan<\/a> after partition. On a visit to the site of the new city in 1952, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/indiarealtime\/2013\/08\/17\/chandigarh-exhibited-in-new-york\/\">Nehru proclaimed<\/a> \u201cLet this be a new town, symbolic of the freedom of India, unfettered by the traditions of the past, an expression of the nation&#8217;s faith in the future\u201d. [1] Early postcolonial India also faced the issue of finding housing for the hundreds of thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hindus\">Hindu<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sikhs\">Sikh<\/a> refugees fleeing the newly formed state of Pakistan; 80% of the original Chandigarh housing was considered \u201clow-cost\u201d. Thus, aesthetics and social issues in Chandigarh were inextricably linked from its inception.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-631\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-631\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/files\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F002_019.jpg\" alt=\"Colour images of Chandigarh's Royal Assembly building by Le Corbusier.\" width=\"600\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F002_019.jpg 861w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F002_019-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F002_019-802x1024.jpg 802w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F002_019-768x981.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CON_B04391_F002_019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_632\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-632\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-632\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/files\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_014.jpg\" alt=\"Colour image of Chandigarh's Royal Assembly building by Le Corbusier.\" width=\"600\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_014.jpg 867w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_014-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_014-807x1024.jpg 807w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_014-768x974.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CON_B04391_F001_014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Interestingly, the architect enlisted appointed to construct Nehru\u2019s architectural symbol of an independent India was a westerner; prolific French <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Modernism\">modernist<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/?s=Le+Corbusier\">Le Corbusier<\/a>. With his own plan to reconstruct the central business district of Paris as a landscape of cruciform towers, octagonal street grids, and green spaces having been rejected in the 1920s, he saw the Chandigarh project as a means through which to realise his vision of the modern city. Prior to his death, Le Corbusier was the principal city planner and the architect behind the three main government buildings that occupied the city centre; the Palace of the National Assembly, the High Court of Justice, and the Palace of the Secretariat of Ministers. Indeed, these structures host many of the features outlined in his 1927 publication, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Le_Corbusier%27s_Five_Points_of_Architecture\"><em>Les cinq points de l\u2019archictecture<\/em><\/a>. These include the idea of the \u201cpilotis\u201d, the reinforced concrete pylons that act as the main components of the government buildings and are beautifully captured in Lennart Olson, Pierre Joly and Vera Cardot\u2019s photographs, taken just after their completion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_633\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-633\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-633\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/files\/2020\/02\/CON_B04392_F002_021.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white interior shot of the Chandigarh's Royal Assembly, by Le Corbusier.\" width=\"600\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04392_F002_021.jpg 943w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04392_F002_021-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04392_F002_021-805x1024.jpg 805w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04392_F002_021-768x977.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CON_B04392_F002_021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-634\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-634\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/files\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_010.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of Chandigarh's High Court building, by Le Corbusier.\" width=\"600\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_010.jpg 938w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_010-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_010-800x1024.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_010-768x983.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CON_B04391_F001_010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_635\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-635\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-635\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/files\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_005.jpg\" alt=\"Colour images of Chandigarh's High Court building, by Le Corbusier.\" width=\"600\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_005.jpg 938w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_005-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_005-800x1024.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_005-768x983.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CON_B04391_F001_005<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-636\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-636\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/files\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_004.jpg\" alt=\"Colour images of Chandigarh's High Court building, by Le Corbusier.\" width=\"600\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_004.jpg 943w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_004-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_004-805x1024.jpg 805w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_004-768x977.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CON_B04391_F001_004<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another Corbusierian motif that forms a central feature of Chandigarh is <em>La Main Ouverte<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_Hand_Monument\">the open hand<\/a>&#8220;, which Corbusier considered a symbol of \u201cpeace and reconciliation. It is open to give and open to receive\u201d. [2] The sculpture in Chandigarh is one of many built by Corbusier, and arguably encompasses the unification of socio-political ideals with architecture, symbolising an India open to new opportunities. In terms of this adoption of a relatively revolutionary style of architecture and urban planning, the construction of Chandigarh can certainly be seen as a symbol of a dehistoricised, decontextualized space through which society could be transformed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-637\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-637\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/files\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_015.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of Chandigarh's High Court building and Open Hand monument, by Le Corbusier.\" width=\"600\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_015.jpg 938w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_015-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_015-800x1024.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sites.courtauld.ac.uk\/digitalmedia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2020\/02\/CON_B04391_F001_015-768x983.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CON_B04391_F001_015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Corrina Summers<br \/>\nCourtauld Connects Digitisation Oxford Micro-Internship Participant<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>References<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Malhotra, A., <em>Chandigarh Exhibited in New York<\/em>\u00a0(2013) &lt;https:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/indiarealtime\/2013\/08\/17\/chandigarh-exhibited-in-new-york\/&gt; [accessed 11 December 2019].<\/li>\n<li>Shipman, Gertrude (5 October 2014). <em>Ultimate Handbook Guide to Chandigarh\u00a0: (India) Travel Guide<\/em>. MicJames. pp.\u00a07\u2013. GGKEY:32JTRTZ290J.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audio Version Read by Christopher Williams Text Version A sense of \u201cdoubleness\u201d pervades the photographs contained within the Conway Library at the Courtauld Institute, the bulk of the collection comprising of photographs of other works of art. 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