MAKING OF CHANDIGARH: A VINTAGE HISTORY
A new book titled “Making of Chandigarh: A Vintage History” co-authored by Sarbjit Bahga, a Chandigarh-based architect, and Arun Mirchandani, a Delhi-based archivist, has recently been released. The Foreword to the book "Chandigarh: An Overview" has been written by Kenneth Frampton, a British architect, critic, and renowned historian of modernist architecture. White Falcon Publishing published the lavishly designed, 410-page, black/white book available worldwide through online portals.
Chandigarh is a giant experiment in town planning and architecture in India and the world. “Among the relatively few bespoke cities designed and built in the 20th century, ranging from Chandigarh to Brasilia (1956) and Curitiba (1965), both being in Brazil ending with the diminutive Milton Keynes in 1972, Chandigarh stands out as the only city to achieve a subtle synthesis between urban and suburban land settlement patterns,” wrote Kenneth Frampton in the Foreword.
