Presentation on UT's changing face

CHANDIGARH: Chandigarh College of Architecture in collaboration with University of Washington will organize a presentation on the changing face of Chandigarh in response to the forces of globalization on March 10. A team of international, national and local experts will deliberate on the issues.
On Monday, local academics and architects including Manit Rastogi, director, Morphogenesis, New Delhi and Dr Richard Williams, dean University of Edinburgh, UK will review the draft presentation.
''The Capital Project team led by Le Corbusier conceived the Periphery Control Act, the strong master-plan, the edicts, the frame control, and the ruin-like brutality of the concrete in anticipation of future assaults Chandigarh is facing today. It is indeed bursting at it seams and a victim of its own success,' said Dr Vikramaditya Prakash, professor of Architecture, adjunct professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington.
Prakash and his team is also studying the haphazard growth in Chandigarh's periphery and termed it the biggest challenge for the city. ''It is like a disaster about to happen. The only solution lies in adopting the values and lessons in planning learned in Chandigarh and apply them to the 'Greater Chandigarh' by making a coordinated effort with other states,' he suggested.