Second volume in a four volume series highlighting the collected sketches of the Swiss-French architect, Le Corbusier. Notes by Françoise de Franclieu. "Second in the four-volume series of Le Corbusier Sketchbooks, this book contains notes and sketches Le Corbusier made in the 1950s, a particularly rich period in his career. During this decade he received the commission for Chandigarh - a mandate to create a new capital city to house the government of the recently created state of Punjab. Soon afterward, he began working on projects for two villas and for the Millowners' Building at Ahmedabad. In all, ten original notebooks record Le Corbusier's reaction to India's exotic and complex culture, his interest in its vernacular architecture, and his preoccupation with environmental control through architectural design. They demonstrate how he transformed new experiences into unique and very personal designs. Paralleling the exhilaration of his work in India is the record of the architect's bitter disappointment at being excluded from participation on the United Nations building in New York." -- from interior flap. Printed in black-and-white and color. Text in English.