Urmila Eulie Chowdhury


General Information


Occupation: Architect, Landscape Architect, Designer, Teacher, Writer

Birth City: Shahjehanpur

Birth State/Province: Uttar Pradesh

Birth Country: India

Resident Country: India

Notes: Member of a (now defunct) writer's group from 1958-63 with revived briefly in the 1970's; has also written "Memories of Le Corbusier" about working and relaxing with him and Pierre jeanneret (the publishers have retained the typescript but have not informed Ms. Chowdury whether it will be published)

Archive/Repository: Office of the Chief Architect, Punjab: Correspondence with Le Corbusier, Drawings of buildings, furniture, and interior design

Sources: International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, World Who's Who of Women, 1978


Specialties


Subject: Cliffside Park, New Jersey

Description: Geographical focus


Subject: Jails


Subject: Focal villages


Subject: Housing


Subject: Parks


Subject: Commericial areas

Description: Shopping centers, parking


Subject: Tourist complexes

Description: Hotels, administration, townships


Subject: Public building for government departments

Description: Health, education, police


Subject: Various parts of New Jersey

Description: Geographical focus


Subject: States of Punjab and Haryana

Description: Geographical focus


Subject: Private houses in Delhi and Calcutta

Description: Geographical focus


Subject: Interior designer in Ahmedabad, India

Description: Geographical focus


Jobs


Employer: Punjab

Title: Chief Architect

Country: India


Employer: Self-employed

City: Chandigarh

Country: India


Collaborators


Name: Pierre Jeanneret

Country: delete

Notes: during the time he was first Senior Architect at Chandigarh (1951-65)


Apprenticeships


No apprenticeships on record


Awards


No awards on record


Exhibitions


Description: as a painter, she held two one-man exhibitions

Country: delete


Notable Projects


No projects on record


Education


Institution: Windsor House School

Degree: Cambridge School Certificate

Notes: Kobe, Japan


Institution: University of Sydney

Notes: Sydney, N.S.W.


Institution: Julian Ashborn School of Art

Degree: Conservatorium of Music, singing and piano

Notes: Sydney N.S.W., 1


Institution: Englewood

Degree: Diploma in Ceramics

Notes: New Jersey


Licensing


License: Royal Institute of British Architects


License: Indian Institute of Architects


Professional Affiliations


Organization: FRIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects)

Role: retired


Organization: FIIA (Indian Institute of Architects)


Organization: Chandigarh Amateur Dramatic Society

Role: Founder President and producer of plays in English


Organization: Alliance Francaise Le Corbusier de Chandigarh

Role: Founder President


Publications By


Title: The Three Human Establishments

Publisher: Punjab Goud

Notes: Translated Le Corbusier from French to English


Publication: Progressive Architecture

Notes: numerous articles


Publication: Architectural Design

Notes: numerous articles


Publication: Casabella

Notes: numerous articles


Publications About


Publication: Progressive Architecture

Notes: numerous articles


Publication: Architectural Design

Notes: numerous articles


Publication: Casabella

Notes: numerous articles