Plans, cross-sections, and west elevation The Ahmedabad Museum in 1961, photo © Richard Langendorf ![]() Le Corbusier designed the museum with great attention to the local conditions, therefore adding an array of sun shading systems, intensive planting, and a roof equipped with 45 water basins, each with a surface of 540 square feet and 13-foot deep, aimed to mitigate the hot climate of Ahmedabad. Roughly in the same period, Le Corbusier was designing the urban development of the city of Chandigarh, Punjab. The building takes its name from Sanskar Kendra, the first major of Ahmedabad. Despite the construction being in rather bad conditions and needing major maintenance works and updates, the museum is still worth a visit because of its historical importance.Ĭompleted in 1956, the home of the museums was designed in the early ’50s by Swiss-French architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, best known as Le Corbusier, as part of a larger development which also included the local Mill Owners’ Association headquarters and two private houses, Villa Sarabhai and Villa Shodhan. Sanskar Kendra is an Indian cultural center in Ahmedabad, in the state of Gujarat, which houses two museums, famous for its building designed by the celebrated architect Le Corbusier.
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