Iain Jackson, Professor of Architecture and Research Director at Liverpool University is the guest contributor for this piece. His PhD research catalogued the extraordinary Rock Garden of Chandigarh and he is quite the expert on the achievements of Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry in Chandigarh.

Maxwell Fry at Farleys House 1957

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Times columnist, Iain Macwhirter, was no enthusiast for brutalist architecture, but Le Corbusier's masterpiece city of Chandigarh in North West India took his breath away.