Le Corbusier was commissioned by the president of the Mill Owners’ Association to design the organization’s headquarters in Ahmedabad, a city historically active in India’s textile trade. The building is a physical manifesto representing Le Corbusier’s proposal for a modern Indian architecture. Constructed in 1954, the Mill Owners’ Association Building is considered the first of four completed commissions in Ahmedabad.
As Le Corbusier began working predominately in warmer environments, he developed a set of architectural devices in response to climatic and cultural contexts. He took cues from India’s vernacular architecture, emulating the deep reveals, overhanging ledges, shade screens, and grand, pillared halls.  He introduced brises-soleil, designed to prevent sun from penetrating the facade, and employed these in combination with thickened facades and unfinished concrete in many of his later projects. Surrounded by ample open space, the Mill Owners’ Association Building was not forced to contend with an existing urban fabric, allowing the architect to propose a distinctly modern aesthetic.
The building sits between Ashram Road to the west and the Sabarmati River to the east. The side walls, to the north and south, are nearly blank and faced in rough stone with a brick exterior. The brises-soleil on the west facade are oriented diagonally to obstruct views from the street while permitting air and indirect sunlight to enter the space. Plants spill from the porous facade, activating the exposed concrete and supplementing the roof garden. At the rear of the building, the brises-soleil are perpendicular to the facade, allowing the breeze from the river to pass uninhibited through the shaded perimeter. Here, Le Corbusier designed the openings to frame views of the river below.
“The situation of the building in a garden dominating the river furnishes a picturesque spectacle of cloth dyers washing and drying their cotton materials on the sand bed in the company of herons, cows, buffalo, and donkeys half immersed in the water to keep cool. Such a panorama was an invitation...to frame views from each floor of the building.” - Le Corbusier 
Completed just after Unité de Habitation, the Mill Owners’ Association Building signifies a shift in Le Corbusier’s architectural style, combining the repetitive rigidity of Villa Savoye with the curvilinear forms of Ronchamp. The facade stands free of the structural pilotis as described in Le Corbusier’s Five Points, but departs from his earlier work in that it extends fully to the ground, screening the cylindrical columns from view. The rectilinear plan and grid expressed on the building’s exterior stand in contrast to the interior spaces, which are characterized by convex and concave volumes. As one moves through the interstitial space, the intersection of curvilinear and orthogonal planes creates an experience of compression and release. A conference room enclosed by a curved, brick wall paneled in wood veneer extends from the second story to roof level. Its curved ceiling reflects light entering through the clerestory window and holds a reflecting pool above, which Le Corbusier had hoped to utilize as a roof reservoir.
The circulation is designed as a promenade, beginning with a ramp extending from the parking lot to a three-story void at the volumetric center of the building. As one ascends the ramp, the view penetrates the brises-soleil, visually opening the facade. The stair core projects beyond the central atrium and main facade, into the elements.
Surottam Hutheesing, who commissioned Le Corbusier to build the headquarters, also asked him to design a private residence. It was eventually realized in the Villa Shodhan after Hutheesing's original commission fell through. The design is consistent with the architect’s proposed architectural grammar for the region, employing deep, perforated walls, brises-soleil, and exposed concrete. For his sole commission in the United States, Le Corbusier constructed an iteration of the Mill Owners’ Association Building in the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
 Curtis, William J.R. Le Corbusier: Ideas and Forms. Phaidon Press, 1994. Print.
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Le Corbusier aliagizwa na rais wa Chama cha Wamiliki wa Kiwanda cha Mill kubuni makao makuu ya shirika hilo huko Ahmedabad, jiji ambalo kwa historia lilikuwa na shughuli nyingi katika biashara ya nguo nchini India. Jengo hilo ni tangazo la kimwili linalowakilisha pendekezo la Le Corbusier kwa usanifu wa kisasa wa India. Jengo la Chama cha Wamiliki wa Kiwanda, lililojengwa mnamo 1954, linachukuliwa kuwa la kwanza kati ya tume nne zilizokamilika huko Ahmedabad. Le Corbusier alipoanza kufanya kazi hasa katika mazingira ya joto, aliendeleza seti ya vifaa vya usanifu kwa kukabiliana na muktadha wa hali ya hewa na kitamaduni. Alichukua ishara kutoka kwa usanifu wa lugha ya India, akifuatilia maonyesho ya kina kirefu, matuta yaliyoinuka, skrini za kivuli, na majumba makubwa yenye nguzo. Brise-soleil, ambayo ilitengenezwa ili kuzuia jua lisivuka, ilitumika pamoja na façades zilizopandwa na saruji isiyo na mwisho katika miradi yake mingi ya baadaye. Jengo la Chama cha Wamiliki wa Kiwanda, lililozungukwa na nafasi kubwa ya wazi, halilazimishwa kushindana na muundo wa mijini uliopo, ikimruhusu mbuni wa jengo hilo kupendekeza aesthetic ya kisasa. Jengo hilo liko kati ya Barabara ya Ashram upande wa magharibi na Mto Sabarmati upande wa mashariki. Kuta za upande, upande wa kaskazini na kusini, ni karibu tupu na inakabiliwa na jiwe gumu na nje ya matofali. Brises-soleil kwenye facade magharibi ni oriented diagonally kuzuia maoni kutoka mitaani wakati kuruhusu hewa na moja kwa moja jua kuingia nafasi. Mimea hutiririka kutoka kwa sehemu ya mbele yenye matundu, ikiamsha saruji iliyo wazi na kuongezea bustani ya paa. Nyuma ya jengo hilo, miamba ya jua iko mviringo na sehemu ya mbele ya jengo hilo, na hivyo kuruhusu upepo kutoka mto huo upite bila vizuizi kupitia eneo hilo lenye kivuli. Hapa, Le Corbusier alibuni milango ili kuelekeza mandhari ya mto ulio chini. <unk>Mtazamo wa jengo hilo katika bustani inayoangazia mto hutoa mandhari yenye kupendeza ya wachoraji wa nguo wakisafisha na kukausha vifaa vyao vya pamba kwenye kitanda cha mchanga katika kampuni ya nyigu, ng'ombe, nyati, na punda walio nusu kuzamishwa ndani ya maji ili kudumisha baridi. "Kama vile ilivyo kwa nyumba ya Le Corbusier, ""Unité de l'Habitation"" ni jengo la usanifu wa mtengenezaji wa viwanda, na inaonyesha mabadiliko katika mtindo wa usanifu wa Le Corbusier, ikiunganisha ugumu wa mara kwa mara wa Villa Savoye na maumbo ya curvilinear ya Ronchamp." "Fasade ya nyumba hiyo haijumuishi pilotis ya muundo kama ilivyoelezwa katika ""Vipande Vitano"" vya Le Corbusier, lakini inatofautiana na kazi yake ya awali kwa kuwa inaenea kabisa hadi chini, ikificha nguzo za silinda kutoka kwa macho." Mpango wa mstari wa moja kwa moja na gridi iliyoonyeshwa kwenye nje ya jengo hilo inatofautiana na nafasi za ndani, ambazo zina sifa ya kiasi cha convex na concave. Kama mtu anaendelea kupitia nafasi interstitial, makutano ya curvilinear na orthogonal ndege inajenga uzoefu wa compression na kutolewa. Chumba cha mikutano kilichofungwa na ukuta wa matofali uliojipinda uliofunikwa kwa mbao huenea kutoka ghorofa ya pili hadi kwenye paa. Safu ya juu ya jengo hilo ina mwangaza unaoingia kupitia dirisha la juu la jengo hilo na ina dimbwi linaloonyesha mwangaza, ambalo Le Corbusier alitarajia kulitumia kama hifadhi ya maji. Mzunguko huo umebuniwa kama njia ya kutembea, ukianza na mteremko unaoanzia mahali pa kuegesha magari hadi kwenye sakafu ya orofa tatu iliyo katikati ya jengo hilo. Mtu anapopanda juu ya mteremko, mandhari huingia ndani ya brises-soleil, na kufungua uso wa jengo hilo. Ngazi ya msingi inaonyesha zaidi ya atrium ya kati na facade kuu, katika vipengele. Surottam Hutheesing, ambaye alimwagiza Le Corbusier kujenga makao makuu, pia alimwomba abuni makao ya kibinafsi. Hatimaye ilitimizwa katika Villa Shodhan baada ya tume ya awali ya Hutheesing kuanguka. Ubunifu ni sambamba na msanifu-ujenzi mapendekezo ya usanifu-ujenzi saruji kwa ajili ya mkoa, kutumia kina, perforated kuta, brises-soleil, na wazi saruji. Kwa ajili ya tume yake pekee nchini Marekani, Le Corbusier alijenga iteration ya Mill Wamiliki 'Association Building katika Carpenter Center kwa ajili ya Sanaa Visual katika Cambridge, Massachusetts. Curtis, William J. R. Le Corbusier: Mawazo na Fomu. Phaidon Press, 1994. Uchapishaji. Le Corbusier, Kazi Yake Kamili