In this episode, we explore the missing building(s) of the Capitol Complex - the Governor’s Palace and the Museum of Knowledge. We explore the formal brilliance of the Governor’s Palace and Corbusier’s idea of the museum. We also talk about the mythical status of Chandigarh in the west and the possibility of reinterpreting the program of the museum of knowledge.

 

 

TIMESTAMPS:

 

1:16 - What was the initial thinking behind the Governor’s Palace and why was the project scrapped.

 

3:59 - Corb’s practice of collaging elements into a single composition.

 

5:36 - Corbusier, Picasso, the ‘masculine bull’.

 

9:16 - Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian man as a precursor to the Modulor man.

 

10:42 - The contrast between the interior and the exterior of the Governor’s Palace.

 

13:01 - Scrapping the Governor’s ‘Palace’ for being an ‘undemocratic’ idea.

 

14:01 - Scaling down the Governor’s Palace using the ‘Modulor’

 

15:13 - The dramatization of the Assembly building.

 

16:36 - The Mundaneum, Museum of Unlimited Growth, Olivetti’s computers and the idea of the Museum of Knowledge.

 

20:25 - The future of the museum, data and knowledge

 

21:13 - Information access vs knowledge production

 

24:40 - The program of the Museum of Knowledge

 

26:51 - Futurity, utopia and uncertainty in the Corbusier’s Capitol.

 

30:07 - Historic preservation ‘sleight of hand’ - the Governor’s Palace shell proposed with the Museum of Knowledge program.

 

32:00 - Corbusier’s reduction to a formalist

 

36:40 - The ‘mythical’ status of Chandigarh in the West - the ’double exotic’.

 

39:37 - The orientalist fetishization of Chandigarh furniture.

 

42:52 - Reinterpreting the program of the Museum of Knowledge - an ephemeral event?

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