Abstract
During the last fifteen years of his life, Nehru's independent India offered Le Corbusier a unique source of reflections and projects, as well as the opportunity for endless written and drawn reflections on the landscapes he discovered from the plane during his transcontinental flights.
In response to commissions from industrialists in Ahmedabad, he built two villas, one with vaulted ceilings to keep the interior cool, the other with a free-form plan in three dimensions to allow for this " architectural promenade " inspired by his trip to Greece.
In Chandigarh, the new capital of Punjab, he conceived the great public buildings of the only urban center he managed to build in relation to the Himalayan ridgeline, and designed the cityscape based on his observations of Indian villages and Mughal gardens.
