B v doshi architect

A master wielder of form and light, Balkrishna Doshi, who passed away on 24 January, 2023, at the age of 95, has left an indelible legacy. His contribution to architecture, art, life, culture and philosophy will be remembered forever. He spent his early career working with celebrated architects Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn. He made us proud with international accolades including the Pritzker Prize in 2018 and 1. Aranya Low Cost Housing, Indore Completed in 1989, this Township was designed by BV Doshi to establish a sense of community and facilitate harmony between the built environment and its inhabitants. It was also the recipient of the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1996. 2. Atira Housing, Ahmedabad One of Doshi's older projects, construction on this complex began in 1956 and was completed in 1960. The ATIRA factory and its homes are located in a green front area at the Indian Institute of Management. It is a small complex that reveals many similarities to Le Corbusier's projects. 3. ECIL, Hyderabad The ECIL township was built by BV Doshi between 1969 and 1971, and was part of a planned expansion of the Hyderabad electronics industry. The settlement is about 15 km from the centre of Hyderabad. Doshi designed the structure specifically for Hyderabad's climate, by using charts to establish sun angles and wind direction so that it can best exploit it through openings and shorts. 5. Jnana-Pravah Centre for Cultural Studies, Varanasi Inaugurated in 2001, the n...

Save this picture! Amdavad Ni Gufa / Balkrishna Doshi. Image © Iwan Baan The communal and ritualistic nature of Indian lifestyles led At the drawing board, a vision for life takes birth. Ideas form scribbled images, and pictures blend to form narratives. Soon arise walls, doors, staircases, and openings that tell a larger story than the sum of its parts. Doshi's design process is guided by imagination for easy and enjoyable moments. His buildings tactfully sheltered actions and interactions. Save this picture! Life Insurance Corporation Housing / Balkrishna Doshi. Image © Left - VSF, Right - Iwan Baan, Collage by ArchDaily His most celebrated design - Aranya Low-Cost Housing in Indore - was built as a model project that currently houses over 80,000 people. Residences for the economically weaker class were structured over a modular system that enabled the building to grow and adapt to future needs. The inspiration for the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) emanated from the large courtyards, playful scales, and maze-like pathways of the temples of Madurai. The design clearly articulates a contrast between architecture and spatial qualities that influence emotions. Doshi's built forms were vessels for actions, memories, and natural forces such as light, breeze, and silence to interact with the inhabitants. Reflective of the Indian ideology of duality, his architecture was a marriage of constant and change; of the measurable and unmeasurable; of the form and for...

New Delhi: Master architect Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi died in Ahmedabad on Tuesday, January 24. He was 95. Doshi’s architecture is seen in some of the most iconic buildings in India, including the Indian Institutes of Management in Bengaluru and Udaipur, the National Institute of Fashion Technology in Delhi, along with the Amdavad ni Gufa underground gallery , the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, the Tagore Memorial Hall, Institute of Indology and Premabhai Hall, and the private residence Kamala House – all in Ahmedabad. His designs for the Aranya Low Cost Housing project in Indore were awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. As tributes poured in on social media, many wrote that he would be considered as India’s greatest architect. RIP to BV Doshi, possibly India's greatest architect. Influenced greatly by Le Corbusier, his buildings were lessons in combining Indian vernacular styles with European modernism and Brutalism. I've long been fascinated by his work. — Pranaya Rana (@inkthink) In 2018, Doshi became the first Indian architect to receive architecture’s highest honour – the Pritzker Prize. Doshi’s style is influenced by 20th-century architecture’s legends Le Corbusier and Louis Khan. “My works are an extension of my life, philosophy and dreams trying to create treasury of the architectural spirit,” Doshi had said after receiving the 2018 prize. In 2022, he was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Royal Gold Medal. He has also re...

The first time I met B.V. Doshi, we sat on the floor of his living room in Kamala House in Ahmedabad. He was narrating a story from his childhood when he had had an accident and was bedridden for six months or so in his grandfather’s home in Pune. It wasn’t a grim conversation at all. It was fascinating actually. He talked about how he observed light, the sounds, how he watched the people move around him; during the day he would wait for the silence of night, and at night he would wait for sunrise. He spoke of it as if it had just happened yesterday. Not in past tense, so to speak, almost present tense. As we spoke, his wife, Kamala, was practising Hindustani classical music in another room—I still remember. B.V. Doshi Athul Prasad Our conversation, in no particular order, went from the daydreams and impressions he had then and how they returned to him much later in life when he started practising architecture; about the peacocks visiting his garden there in Kamala House; about making up myths and stories of “a giant sleeping tortoise” to persuade That day, while leaving, I requested him to sign a copy of his book Paths Uncharted for me. He made a small error while writing the date. So to correct it, he just doodled around it so it started looking like a little donkey. It was the sweetest moment, as he pointed it out to me and laughed aloud, amused by his little trick. Doshi was born in Pune on 26 August 1927, and moved to Mumbai in 1947 and enrolled in the architecture co...

Save this picture! Sangath. Image Courtesy of VSF Sangath is Doshi’s own studio, often considered the building that fully describes encapsulates his approach. It features a series of sunken vaults clad in china mosaic and a terraced amphitheater with flowing water details. Sangath represents the connection between nature and the individual. Life Insurance Corporation Housing Save this picture! Life Insurance Corporation Housing. Image Courtesy of VSF This housing project for the Life Insurance Corporation in Ahmedabad was designed in 1973 and consists of 324 units in a duplex terraced unit scheme. It was designed to introduce a clear sense of order and combine both high density and low-rise: the result being a traditional urban row house of smaller units slotted into larger units. Tagore Memorial Hall Jan 3, 2016 at 12:43am PST An exploration of his interest in Brutalism, the Tagore Memorial Hall is one of Doshi’s most notable designs. Completed in 1966, this 700-seat amphitheater features reinforced concrete walls which are broken up by folded plates to create contrasting planes of light and shadow. Amdavad ni Gufa Save this picture! Amdavad ni Gufa. Image © Laurian Ghinitoiu One of Doshi’s more experimental designs, this cave-like art gallery exhibits the work of artist Maqbool Fida Husain. Much like his Sangath studio, the domed structures that feature the artwork are covered in mosaic tiles. The artworks are applied directly onto the walls on the interior and metal scu...