In Ahmedabad, Le Corbusier designed the villa Sarabhai, the villa Shodhan, as well as the Mill owner’s building, for the city’s industrial elite.
In Chandigarh, he designed the city plan as well as Capitol complex, containing the High court, the Secretariat and the Assembly buildings to symbolize, the democratic and secular ethos of newly independent India.
Le Corbusier’s writings, paintings, letters to his wife, mother, Indian clients, rare documents, photographs, drawings, even a newsreel, interviews with the actors of the day both Indian and French, as well as International historians, critics and architects have been edited together with the images of the buildings to tell the story of this fascinating adventure.
