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B.V. Doshi: Pioneering Indian Architect

Balkrishna Doshi is an Indian architect who was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2018. Over his 70-year career, he has completed over 100 projects in India, mainly public buildings like schools, libraries, and low-cost housing. He was influenced by modernists like Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn but interprets architecture through an eastern cultural lens. His buildings are poetic, functional, and address climate and context while enhancing quality of life. Examples highlighted are the Institute of Indology and Aranya Low Cost Housing. His own studio, Sangath, blends nature and architecture through vaults, terraces and flowing water. The Indian Institute of Management campus in Bangalore draws from traditional Indian cities and temples

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B.V. Doshi: Pioneering Indian Architect

Balkrishna Doshi is an Indian architect who was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2018. Over his 70-year career, he has completed over 100 projects in India, mainly public buildings like schools, libraries, and low-cost housing. He was influenced by modernists like Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn but interprets architecture through an eastern cultural lens. His buildings are poetic, functional, and address climate and context while enhancing quality of life. Examples highlighted are the Institute of Indology and Aranya Low Cost Housing. His own studio, Sangath, blends nature and architecture through vaults, terraces and flowing water. The Indian Institute of Management campus in Bangalore draws from traditional Indian cities and temples

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CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECT-

B.V. DOSHI

By- Adit Garg


Priyam Sabla
Anvita Bana
ABOUT

Balkrishna Doshi, in full


Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, also
called B.V. Doshi, (born August
26, 1927, Pune, India), Indian
architect, the first from that
country to be awarded the
prestigious Pritzker Prize (2018).
In a career spanning about seven
decades, Doshi completed more
than 100 projects, many of which
were public institutions based in
India: schools, libraries, art
centres, and low-cost housing.
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
ETHICAL AND PERSONAL
ARCHITECTURE

Influenced by masters of 20th century architecture,


Le Corbusier, and Louis Khan, Doshi has been able
to interpret architecture and transform it into built
works that is ethical and personal. His architecture
respects eastern culture while enhancing the quality
of living in India, touching lives of every socio-
economic class across abroad spectrum of genres
since the 1950’s.
Institute of Indology (1962) in Ahmedabad,
India

POETIC AND FUNCTIONAL


ARCHITECTURE

Doshi describes architecture as an extension of the


body, and his ability to attentively address function
while regarding climate, landscape, and urbanization
is demonstrated through his choice of materials,
overlapping spaces, and utilization of natural and
harmonizing elements.
Aranya Low Cost Housing (1989) in Indore,
India.

ARCHITECTURE PROVIDING
SERVICE TO HUMANITY

Over the years, Balkrishna Doshi has always created


an architecture that is serious, never flashy or a
follower of trends. Doshi is acutely aware of the
context in which his buildings are located. His
solutions consider the social, environmental and
economic dimensions, and therefore his architecture
is totally engaged with sustainability.
BUILDINGS
SANGATH,
AHMEDABAD

Balkrishna Doshi's own


studio, Sangath, features
a series of sunken vaults
sheathed in china mosaic
as well as a small grassy
terraced amphitheater
and flowing water
details.
Having been considered
the building that fully
describes himself,
Sangath is a complete
combination of Doshi's
architectural themes
from his previous work
including complex
interiors and structures,
ambiguous edges, vaults
and terraces.
Sangath also expresses
Balkrishna Doshi's
desire for a connection
between nature and the
individual. The overall
form exaggerates the
details of nature with its
rolling mounds, cave-
like spaces, terraced
land, playful water
channels, and reflective
surfaces.
I N D I A N I N S T I T UT E
O F M A NA G E ME N T,
B AN G A L O R E

The Indian Institute of


Management in
Bangalore, completed
in 1983, is inspired by
traditional maze-like
Indian cities and
temples, organized as
interlocking
buildings, courts and
galleries.
Ample greenery
offsets the concrete
and stone architecture
of this prestigious
business school.
Doshi elevated the
corridors into living,
breathing ‘streets’, all
treated differently—
some open, some
partially covered with
skylights, and others
only with pergolas.
The IIMB campus
was envisioned as a
place to be inhabited,
as a place to facilitate
the course of human
interaction and
reflects the perfect
sense of scale,
proportion, and light.
Regarding this
project, Doshi said “a
campus should be
meandering and
connecting.”
THANK YOU

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