Palace of Assembly -- Chandigarh, India (1963) India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, asked Corbusier to create a city focused on the future, an optimistic symbol to follow the bitter partition battles of the recent past. Corbu responded with a brilliant piece of Brutalist design. Photo courtesy Aleksandr Zykov, Creative Commons. Photo 10 of 10 in Art Brut: Revisiting Brutalist Architecture by Patrick Sisson

Art Brut: Revisiting Brutalist Architecture

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Palace of Assembly -- Chandigarh, India (1963)

India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, asked Corbusier to create a city focused on the future, an optimistic symbol to follow the bitter partition battles of the recent past. Corbu responded with a brilliant piece of Brutalist design. Photo courtesy Aleksandr Zykov, Creative Commons.