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Gandhi Bhawan

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Creator(s)
architect: Pierre Jeanneret (Swiss, 1896-1965)
Time period
creation date: 1966
Location
Current Site: Chandigarh (Punjab, India)
Cultural context
Indian (South Asian)
Description
Planned as a center for dissemination of Gandhian philosophy, Gandhi Bhawan was to contain a library, a seminary room and a lecture hall. The choice of the building form was symbolic and emerged as an introverted, centrifugal one, wherein each of the three major functions - though contained in separarately articulated wings - were linked together through interpenetrating volumes meeting at a central, sky-lit exhibtiion space.
exterior, façade and reflecting pool
, ca. 1965
Work type
Lecture hall
College building
Medium
concrete
marble
sandstone
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Rights
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, photograph by G. E. Kidder Smith
Access rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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