The memory of Gandhi and Tagore was also strong among Indian architecturestudents, and they were immensely "idealistic and dedicated." Why, then, wastheir combined output so pedestrian, so uninspiring? The difference perhaps layin the fact that Jefferson was himself an architect and was able to realise hisvision, while Nehru had to look to a new generation of inexperienced youngarchitects, all trained in architectural schools abroad, or to rely on theservices of a man generally regarded as one of the great architects of the time,Le Corbusier, a man who had reportedly approached both Hitler and then Mussoliniwith plans for creating and building a new city for them, and who was rejectedby both. This was the vision that was, then, to alight on designing democraticIndia's first planned city.