Eulie Chowdhury

She died on 20 September 1995 in Chandigarh, India. Chowdhury was a pioneer woman in Indian architecture.

In 1983, she established the Alliance Française de Chandigarh. She wrote articles in the Saturday Plus supplement of The Tribune and wrote a column titled Sinners and Winners. She advocated for euthanasia.

She retired from public service in 1981 and then worked on her own in private practice in Chandigarh. She was involved with many publications, which included the translation of Le Corbusier's book, Three Human Establishments, from French to English, which became an official publication of the Punjab government. She also wrote articles for magazines, including Progressive Architecture, Architectural Design and Casabella.

In 1970, she was Chief State Architect of Haryana and from 1976 to 1981 the Chief State Architect of the State of Punjab.

Chowdhury's assignment during the period 1963–65 was as the Director of the School of Architecture of Delhi. During this period she also authored a book of memories of Le Corbusier titled Those Were The Days.

After working for a short time in United States, she returned to India in 1951 and became a member of a team headed by Le Corbusier for planning the design and construction of Chandigarh during 1951–63 and 1968–70. She was the only connection between Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and the Indian architects and administrators. Her assignments included the Home Science College, the Women's Polytechnic and many residential complexes of the ministers. Her third assignment, from 1971 to 1976, was as the Chief Architect, who she worked for the second stage of Chandigarh city planning.

Urmila Eulie Chowdhury (4 October 1923 – 20 September 1995) was an Indian architect who worked during the mid-to-late 20th century. She worked in the fields of general architecture, landscape architecture and design, and was also a teacher and writer. She was a pioneer woman architect working in India. Some sources state that she was also the first female architect in Asia. After her education she worked in close collaboration with Le Corbusier in the planning design and construction of the city of Chandigarh.

Chowdhury was born in Shahjehanpur in Uttar Pradesh in 1923. She earned a Cambridge School Certificate from Kobe, Japan, studied architecture at the University of Sydney, and at the Conservatory of Music of the Julian Ashborn School of Art, Sydney, and earned a degree in Ceramics in Englewood, New Jersey. Her father was a diplomat, so she grew up traveling around the world. She was married to Jugal Kishore Chowdhary, who worked as a consulting architect with the Government of Punjab.