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Before the Grid: The Unbuilt Chandigarh of Maciej Nowicki by Kacper Kępiński

Just in case you were not in Chandigarh last month (May 2026) , and I imagine that is most of us, we missed an interesting exhibition of an alternative, and
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Scarpa vs the Bryggman family

Carlo Scarpa the singular Italian architect and designer, versus a relatively unknown Finnish architecture and design team of father Erik Bryggmann and daughter Carin Bryggmann,  that’s not a real  competition.
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Joseph Allen Stein: California Modernism in India

It’s unlikely you’ve ever heard of Joseph Allen Stein but he is the only architect in India to have a street named after him and he has his own corner of New Delhi that goes by the name Steinabad (you know, like Ahmedabad or Hyderabad). Unlike the monumental modernism of  Le Corbusier in Chandigarh or the brutalism of Louis Kahn in Ahmedabad, Stein’s approach was quieter and more contextual but just as influential. So what is his story and how did he come to be working in India?

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Masters of Indian Modernism: Charles Correa and Nek Chand

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.

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From Farleys to Chandigarh

Maxwell Fry at Farleys House 1957

Copyright Lee Miller Archives

Photograph: Lee Miller

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Chandigarh – Le Corbusier’s Modernist Dream in the Punjab

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.

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Architourian’s Chandigarh Choices

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Download our free guide to Chandigarh’s hidden gems revealing the ambition of the city’s founders.