Le Corbusier's Ahmedabad: Millowners' Association Building documents one of Le Corbusier's least-published yet most consequential works — the 1954 Millowners' Association Building in Ahmedabad — tracing its direct influence on his subsequent designs and situating it within his broader theoretical framework.
About This Book
Completed in 1954, the Millowners' Association Building occupies a curious position in Le Corbusier's canon: acknowledged as significant but rarely examined in depth. Mehrdad Hadighi addresses that gap, reading the building not in isolation but as a pivot point in Le Corbusier's development — one that demonstrably shaped the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard. The analysis moves between built form and theoretical writing, bringing Vers une architecture into direct dialogue with the building's spatial logic. Characteristic devices — the promenade architecturale, the brise-soleil — are examined through newly produced scaled drawings and models, making this an essential reference for anyone working seriously with Le Corbusier's architecture.
Key Features
- 184 pages of analytical text, scaled architectural drawings, and newly produced study models
- Author: Mehrdad Hadighi
- Notable case studies: Millowners' Association Building, Ahmedabad; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard
- Published by Birkhauser Verlag
What You'll Discover
- How the Millowners' Association Building functioned as a design laboratory that informed Le Corbusier's later built works, including the Carpenter Center at Harvard
- The theoretical underpinnings of the building through close reading of Vers une architecture and its application to a specific commission
- The intellectual debt Le Corbusier owed to figures such as Paul Valéry and John Ruskin, and how their thinking shaped his architectural language
- The spatial and tectonic logic of the promenade architecturale and brise-soleil as they manifest in this building, clarified through scaled drawings and models
About the Author
Mehrdad Hadighi is the author of this focused monographic study. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 184
- Dimensions: 28 x 23 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783035628692
- Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and architectural historians with a focused interest in Le Corbusier's methodology, students of modernism examining the relationship between theory and built form, and researchers working on mid-century architecture in South Asia.