In India, this architectural style was introduced by Le Corbusier, a Swiss-French architect, who further inspired many Indian architects to take over brutalism in their works.
The brutalist has won in different categories at the Oscars of 2025 after having won prizes at large film festivals and Showbizz Awards. The 3.5 -hour film is a historic drama that tells the story of a visionary architect and survivor of Holocaust who escapes to America to rebuild his life and career. The film brought the brutal architectural style into the attention that arose in the 1950s. Brutistic architecture originated in England and is characterized by simplistic but colossal concrete structures.
In India, this architectural style was introduced by Le Corbusier, a Swiss-French architect, who further inspired many Indian architects to take over brutalism in their works.
Le Corbusier was born in 1887 in Switzerland. A worldwide influential architect and city planner, he was the man behind the Master Plan for Chandigarh and designed many important buildings of the city, which became the first expression of modern city planning in independent India.
Le Corbusier was chosen by the first Indian government, led by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru – an admirer of modernist architecture – to plan and design the city that became the shared capital of Punjab and Haryana.
Some of the most iconic monuments designed by Le Corbusier in Chandigarh are the open hand monument, the center of Chandigarh and the Chandigarh Capitol complex – the administrative heart of Chandigarh with buildings such as the assemblage building, the secretariat and the Punjab and the Haryana High Court.
Although Chandigarh’s design remains the most prominent project of Le Corbusier in India, his association with the country has been extended to other cities and buildings.
The Ahmedabad Textile Mills Association (ATMA) in Ahmedabad in Gujarat, built in 1954, was one of the most important works by Le Corbusier in the country. He also designed the Sanskar Kendra Museum and residential villas such as Villa Shodhan and Villa Sarabhai in Ahmedabad.
In addition to the institutions designed by Le Corbusier, the work of the architect also had a deep influence on many other buildings that were built throughout India.
In fact, various prominent Indian architects, including Charles Correa, Balkrishna against Doshi, Raj Rewal and Suhasini Ayer, have inspired by the Architect of Chandigarh.
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