Balkrishna Doshi, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, 1977, 1992
When the nonagenarian Balkrishna Doshi was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2018, the Vitra Museum decided to join in on this late but well deserved recognition through a major retrospective of his lifework, and opened the show less than a year later at its campus in Weil am Rhein. ‘Architecture for the People’ has since been traveling the world and now has landed at the ICO Museum in Madrid, amid the emotion that comes with the fact that this sixth stop is the first after the Indian master’s death. Through abundant material provided by his studio in Ahmedabad, including a theatrical life-size recreation of a part of it, the exhibition goes from Doshi’s early collaborations with Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn to his efforts to help build an independent country by combining the best of the Western avant-garde with the ancestral wisdom of the subcontinent. All of this is also presented in the catalog that has been carefully put together for the occasion, reviewed in the Books section of this Arquitectura Viva issue.
Balkrishna Doshi, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, 1977, 1992 © Vinay Panjwani India
Balkrishna Doshi, Viviendas para la Life Insurance Corporation of India, Ahmedabad, 1973 © Vastushilpa Foundation, Ahmedabad
Balkrishna Doshi, Sangath, estudio del arquitecto, Ahmedabad, 1980 © Iwan Baan 2018
Balkrishna Doshi en colaboración con M. F. Husain, sala de exposiciones Amdavad ni Gufa, Ahmedabad, 1994 © Iwan Baan 2018
Balkrishna Doshi, Sangath, estudio del arquitecto (miniatura), Ahmedabad, 1980 © Vastushilpa Foundation, Ahmedabad
Balkrishna Doshi en Sangath, estudio del arquitecto, Ahmedabad, 1980 © Iwan Baan 2018
