Aman Aggarwal is the Principal Architect at Charged Voids, an architecture and design practice that seeks to infuse a spiritual character in built forms through knowledge of the elements and response to climate. His design philosophy and thinking have been shaped by Le Corbusier’s core principles of modernism and his experience training under the late Pritzker Prize-winning architect BV Doshi. Through his practice, he aims to search for a sense of temporal continuity that can bind our glorious past with the beads of the future.
Good architecture holds the power to evoke strong emotional responses in us. Post-independence, one of the first ideas of building ‘good’ architecture in India was manifested in the city of Chandigarh by Le Corbusier, using his five points of architecture: open floor plans, long windows, free facades, roof gardens, and pilotis.
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