- Pierre Jeanneret
Pierre Jeanneret (
March 2 ,1896 -December 4 ,1967 ) was aSwiss architect who collaborated with his more famous cousin Charles Edouard Jeanneret (who assumed the pseudonymLe Corbusier ) for about twenty years. Their working relationship ended when he joined theFrench Resistance and Le Corbusier did not.However, they collaborated once again and famously after the War, on the plan and architecture for the planned city of
Chandigarh inIndia .Chandigarh
Jeanneret, in collaboration with the English husband-wife team of
Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Beverly Drew, was responsible for much ofChandigarh 's civic architecture. Jeanneret was responsible for much of the architecture in Chandigarh's university, including the Gandhi Bhawan and the University Library.Pierre Jeanneret stayed on in Chandigarh after its construction, advising the local government in his appointed capacity as Chief Architect of the city.
On his death, in accordance with his will, Jeanneret's ashes were scattered in the city's lake.
ee also
*Documenting Chandigarh: The Indian Architecture of Pierre Jeanneret, Edwin Maxwell Fry, Jane Beverly Drew, by Kiran Joshi, Grantha Corporation, 1999. ISBN 1-890206-13-X
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