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Article: Le Corbusier gets permanent space in Chandigarh

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October 6, 2008
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Chandigarh, Oct. 6 -- 'Le Corbusier centre and museum' was inaugurated here Monday by the administrator of the city S.F. Rodrigues.

The centre, dedicated to Swiss-French architect who designed Chandigarh in 1950s, has been set up by the Chandigarh administration at the Old Architects' building in Sector 19, which was the office of Le Corbusier.

"This is the place where the great architect used to sit and conceptualise the master plan of the country's most well planned city. Now, students and scholars from all over the world can come here and do research on the works of Corbusier," the nodal officer of this project Vidya ...

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