Friday, July 17, 2015

'Late Charles Correa on Chandigarh' - by K.J.S.Chatrath


"Not that Chandigarh is utopia. Far from it. The dust-catching jalis, the confusing patterns of sectors, the medieval segregation of social classes are apalling" wrote late Charles Correa in a Times of India article in 1968.

Incidentetally Correa's profile picture of that time shows him donning Le Corbusier style round spectacles!