Balkrishna Doshi - Architect
Projects have included:
> Institute of Indology Ahmadabad 1957 - 62
> Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology 1967 - 81
> Studios at Sangath, Ahmadabad 1979 - 81
> Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore 1977 - 85
> Gandhi Labour Institute, Ahmadabad 1980 - 84
> Affordable housing project at Indore 1983 - 86
> Urban plan for Vidhyadhar Nagar, Jaipur 1984 - 86
> Maharashtra Institute of Development Administration, Pune 1991
> National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi 1991 - 97
> Gufa 1992 - 95
> Bharat Diamond Bourse, Mumbai 1998
Balkrishna V. Doshi in Wikipedia
Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi (b. 26 August 1927 in Pune, India) is an Indian architect.
After initial studies at the J. J. School of Architecture, Mumbai, he worked in London then for four years with Le Corbusier. Doshi returned to Ahmedabad to supervise Le Corbusier's work. His studio, Vastu-Shilpa (environmental design), was established in 1955. Doshi worked closely with Louis Kahn and Anant Raje, when Kahn designed the campus of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. In 1958 he was a fellow at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He then started the School of Architecture (S.A) in 1962.
Doshi is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and has been on the selection committee for the Pritzker Prize, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, and the Aga Khan Award.
Dr. Balkrishna Doshi, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Architects was born in Pune in August 26th, 1927
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Balkrishna Doshi YouTube vids
Towards a sustainable architecture
We discover durable architecture with the help of five renowned architects, each living in a different country, five pioneers of the movement and their work. We also discover the influence of their culture on their creative processes. Wang Shu - China Stefan Behnisch - Germany Balkrishna Doshi - India Hermann Kaufmann - Austria Françoise-Hélène Jourda - France
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Balkrishna V. Doshi references in Blog Posts from Google
- Balkrishna Doshi Rues Lack of Ideas
- doshi Poverty of ideas and a lack of social commitment in many of India's contemporary architects could leave us with no skyline we can call our own two decades from now, fears visionary architect-planner Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi. ...
- The fountainhead
- Speaking at the first Architect Achyut Kanvinde Memorial Lecture, Balkrishna Doshi hailed him as the pioneer of modern architecture in India ?Although he came from an art deco architecture background, there was an aspiration in him, ...
- Doshi's philosophy of place - Building Design
- Gripping interviews with Balkrishna Doshi, his former students, practitioners (including Graham Morrison of Allies & Morrison) and family members deal with critical questions on working as an architect within the Indian context. ...
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