I went to see the Le Corbusier exhibition on Saturday at the Barbican centre in London.

I'm not an architect, but I have a reasonable knowledge of his work. I remember reading Leadville by Edward Platt a few years ago and being fascinated by Le Corbusier's plans for Paris. After visiting India a lot, I was also aware of his extensive work over there.

However, most of the exhibition did not concern itself with this area of Le Corbusier's work. In fact, it felt like the first two thirds of the exhibits were almost trivial. This was his pen, this was a chair he used, this was a picture one of his friends painted... it felt unrelated to what I had expected to see.

Only the sections on the Philips pavilion and Chandigarh really felt interesting and exciting. What a shame, considering the appropriateness of this exhibition being located in a building like the Barbican centre!