Add to ORKGThe realization that Chandigarh was the peak of a new sensibility in architecture and city planning that has seen modernity adapt itself to completely different climatic contexts and cultural identities from the ones that existed in Europe and the West makes it possible to regard it as the first step toward an appreciation of the vast extent of the territories in which tropical modernity would be able to produce radical changes. Chandigarh can be seen as the first widely recognized case of the export of the modern tropical paradigm, replete with architectural and aesthetic models that were shared with the elite of the time. Content of the book A protocol drawn up long ago in 1945 by Otto Koenigsberger, adopted in nearly one hundr...