Students, residents take tour of Le Corbusier Centre

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, December 3

To commemorate the 50th death anniversary of Pierre Jeanneret, guided tours of the Le Corbusier Centre and Jeanneret House for students and citizens were conducted today.

Deepika Gandhi, Director, Le Corbusier Centre, said the visitors were first made aware of the significance of the house that Jeanneret lived in, the process of its restoration, the salient features of the houses designed by Jeanneret. Gandhi explained the exhibits of the Jeanneret Museum in the sections on housing, educational buildings, Punjab University and especially his much-famous furniture design.

Of particular interest were pictures of Jeanneret and his correspondence with Corbusier and the Indian Administration.

The students of architecture were made aware of the importance of the study of these low-cost structures which did not compromise on aesthetics. The visitors were able to view the exhibition by Cristian Chironi.

My house is a Le Corbusier (Pierre Jeanneret House Museum) is a project promoted by the Le Corbusier Foundation of Paris, the Pierre Jeannette Museum and the Le Corbusier Centre, Chandigarh, with the support of the Anna and Francesco Tampieri collection and the Institute of Italian Culture, New Delhi.

To make the museum more approachable to the citizens of Chandigarh and the regional tourists, all captions in the centre have been translated in Hindi to help them understand the making and heritage of Chandigarh.

This will perhaps be the first museum in Chandigarh to have bilingual captions to make it more approachable to the common man. The captions were translated with the help of Department of Schools which deputed Dr Dinesh Yadav and Dr Piyush Aggarwal, both teachers at the GMSSS, to undertake task.

Jeanneret's furniture sold again    

While the administration is  commemorating the 50th death anniversary of  Pierre Jeanneret, his designed  furniture has again been sold at Oak Park, Illinois (USA), recently.  In all, 7 items  were sold in the  auction  which fetched them Rs 18 lakh. The  items  include office cane chairs of  Punjab University, writing chairs and easy armchair.