Chandigarh Casablanca 26 November 2013 to 6 April 2014 exhibition
Tom Avermaete and Maristella Casciato curate an exhibition that suggests a new historiography of modern urbanism based on two major urban experiments in the Global South. Chandigarh was planned by a team consisting of Le Corbusier, Jeanneret, Frey, Drew and local architects and planners whilst Casablanca was conceived by Michel Ecochard and a team of young French and Moroccan architects. The exhibition fosters fresh discussions on the engagement of local particularity with the universal in the framework of the growing economic and political cooperation promoted by the United Nations and other global organizations such as the International Monetary Fund. Partly based on the Pierre Jeanneret archive recently donated to the CCA, the exhibition and accompanying publication will include new photographic commissions by Yto Barrada and Takashi Homma offering a contemporary reading of these two cities.
Pierre Jeanneret, architect and photographer. Assembly Building, Chandigarh. c. 1960-1964. Gelatin silver print. 16.8 x 16.6 cm. Fonds Pierre Jeanneret, CCA Collection. ARCH258392
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