Plans to Raze Louis Kahn-Designed Dorms in India Are on Hold

Matt Shaw   /  Source:  The New York Times
07/01/2021


After an outcry from preservationists and architects, the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad said that it would reconvene to consider the dorms’ future.

Plans to raze 14 of 18 dormitories designed by the architect Louis Kahn for the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad that set off an international outcry were rolled back on Friday.

The school’s board of governors said in a letter Friday that in response to feedback it was “withdrawing the Expression of Interest” to demolish the dorms, which were built in the 1960s and ’70s, and would reconvene its building committee to find a solution that honors the legacy of the campus while meeting the university’s future needs...

The New York Times: Plans to Raze Louis Kahn-Designed Dorms in India Are on Hold


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