Le Corbusier Rediscovered

Rajnish Wattas is the former principal of the Chandigarh College of Architecture and currently visiting professor at various institutions. Widely traveled, he has lectured at numerous prestigious forums in India and abroad, including Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago. An architectural critic and authority on Chandigarh's modern heritage, he has focused on the city's landscape design considerably. He has authored a huge compendium of professional writings and hundreds of general essays, travelogues and features in leading journals, newspapers and anthologies. He is co-author of two books, Trees of Chandigarh and Sukhna and Sublime Lake of Chandigarh. He has been a member on various expert groups including the one that evolved the 'Master Plan of Chandigarh - 2031' and is currently member 'Chandigarh Heritage Committee'. He is a founder member of the Chandigarh Tree Lovers (CTL), a group that promotes awareness about Chandigarh's landscape. Deepika Gandhi is an alumnus and faculty of the Chandigarh College of Architecture since 2002, and is presently holding the charge of Director Le Corbusier Centre & Chandigarh Architecture Museum. She was the Secretary Symposium for the International Symposium Celebrating Le Corbusier's Chandigarh on which this publication is based. Having worked on the preparation of the Dossier for the world heritage nomination of the Capitol Complex she has since been engaged in promoting the heritage of Chandigarh at all levels. She supervised the repair and restoration of the Pierre Jeanneret house and established the Jeanneret Museum there, while also restoring the Le Corbusier Centre. She has co-authored the book Sukhna Sublime Lake of Chandigarh and authored and designed booklets 'Chandigarh - My city beautiful' and 'Nek Chand's Rock Garden' to sensitise students about their heritage.