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Villa Shodhan (or Shodhan House) is a modernist villa located in Ahmedabad, India. Designed by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier , it was built between 1951 and 1956. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Building on his previous projects whilst integrating the traditional features of Ahmedabad design, the villa symbolizes Le Corbusier's domestic architecture. [ 3 ]
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The Mill Owners' Association Building and Villa Shodhan were the works assigned to him by Surottam Hutheesing [11] Ahmedabad's main art venue, Leila & Purushottam Hutheesing Visual Art Centre, as well as the Purshottambhai Maganbhai & Leila P Hutheesing Public Charitable Trust is named after Maganbhai's son Purshottambhai.
In the late 1920s Le Corbusier lost confidence in big business to realise his dreams of utopia represented in the Ville Contemporaine and Plan Voisin (1925). Influenced by the linear city ideas of Arturo Soria y Mata (which Milyutin also employed) and the theories of the syndicalist movement (that he had recently joined) he formulated a new vision of the ideal city, the Ville Radieuse. [2]
The Sanskar Kendra, Villa Sarabhai, Villa Shodhan, and Mill Owners' Association Building in Ahmedabad were designed by Le Corbusier. [23] American architect Louis Kahn designed the IIM Ahmedabad. [23]
Beth David Synagogue in Binghamton NY (1963) was often seen as a significant synthesis of Wright and Le Corbusier although it was derived from the preliminary sketches for the Villa Shodhan by Le Corbusier. [3] Seligmann also published numerous articles on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and modern architecture in general. [3]
Buildings in the area that have survived include the Getty Villa art museum in Pacific Palisades. The villa isn't your average home, but homeowners can learn from the Getty staff's fire prep.
Mithakali is a part of Ahmedabad city. Once a fairly nondescript and quiet place, it has recently seen a real estate explosion.. Today Mithakali is home to the Crosswords book store chain, the Pantaloons department store chain, the Westside stores chain which is a Tata company, the Subway sandwich store, Natural Ice cream, an Adidas showroom and many other big names that are opening up in ...