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Le Corbusier, the architect of Chandigarh was a national of

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He was born in Switzerland but took the citizenship of the country where he built his career in Paris.
Updated On: Jul 17, 2026
  • Britain
  • Portugal
  • France
  • Netherlands
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The Correct Option is C

Solution and Explanation

Chandigarh is the one Indian city built to a modern master plan by a world famous architect. The question asks for that architect's nationality, so keep birth and citizenship apart in your mind.

  1. Britain: Chandigarh did have British architects on the team, Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, who designed housing and public buildings under Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier himself was never British.
  2. Portugal: Portugal's mark on India was in Goa, Daman and Diu. It has no connection with Chandigarh or with Le Corbusier.
  3. France: Le Corbusier was born Charles Edouard Jeanneret in Switzerland in 1887, settled in Paris, and became a French citizen in 1930. Every account of him from then on calls him a French architect. Nehru invited him in the early 1950s to plan the new Punjab capital, and he laid out the sector grid and designed the Capitol Complex with its High Court, Secretariat, Assembly and the Open Hand monument.
  4. Netherlands: The Dutch have their own modernist tradition, but no Dutch architect designed Chandigarh.

Option (C) is correct because Le Corbusier held French nationality.

Let's summarize:

  • Le Corbusier: born in Switzerland, French citizen from 1930, chief planner of Chandigarh.
  • His Chandigarh work includes the sector grid and the Capitol Complex.

So he was a national of France.

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