ABSTRACT
This chapter extends the discussion on sites as fragments, and our longing for wholeness, which, one could argue, exists only as a result of the preponderance of fragments in modernity and the myriad processes of fragmentation. The fragments at Chandigarh and Ahmedabad suggest the presence of meta-narratives: they are both historical and yet a historical - primordial, positive entities capable of achieving renewed wholeness. The High Court illustrates various architectonic measures to connect distant topographic features - mountains, intervening landscape and the horizon - as part of Le Corbusier's attempts to integrate the new city with its natural surroundings. The chapter explores this notion of justice and the role of the architectural fragment in its contextualisation, mediation and representation in independent India by addressing the case of Chandigarh as the capital of the then newly formed Indian state of Punjab, a city design generally attributed to Le Corbusier.
