1927 - (Pune, India)
Does being modern mean adopting a style, taking on a certain attitude, continuing to exhaust the paths of the avant-gardes, ultimately finding new ways to do old things? Balkrishna Doshi (1927-2023), one of the fathers of architecture in India, is un
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
Balkrishna Doshi, who has died aged 95, produced architecture appropriate to the climate, geography, culture and traditions of India by transforming principles drawn from internationally recognised modern masters – notably Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn
In Ahmedabad on 24 January, Balkrishna Doshi died at the age of 95. Trained under Le Corbusier, he was an educator of several generations of Indian architects and the nexus between European modernity and that of his country. Doshi received the Pritzk
He gave his practice a revealing name – Vastu-Shilpa, which in Sanskrit means ‘ability to create structures’ – that would harmonize the ancestral lyricism of the Mahabharata with the confident tone of Vers une architecture. And he strove for the same
Balkrishna Doshi The Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the profession’s most distinguished prize in the United Kingdom, fell upon Balkrishna Doshi, Pritzker winner in 2018, teacher of several generations of Indian practitioners
The Museum of Modern Art announces ‘The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947–1985’, an exhibition that will explore the ways modern architecture in the region gave shape and expression to idealistic societal vi
The Hyatt Foundation awarded the Pritzker Prize 2018 to Balkrishna Doshi, master and teacher of several generations of Indian architects, aside from link between modernity in Europe and modernity in India. Born in Pune in 1927 and trained with Le Cor
Vitra Design Museum presents the first international retrospective about the 2018 Pritzker Prize laureate Balkrishna Doshi (born 1927, Pune, India) outside of Asia. On view through 8 September, the exhibition will open Doshi’s work to a global audien
Balkrishna Doschi, a master of modernity and teacher of several generations of Indian architects, is the latest receipient of the Pritzker Prize.
The chairman of Hyatt Foundation, Tom Pritzker, announced the selection of Balkrishna Doshi as Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate of 2018, the accolade’s fortieth anniversary. Born in Pune in 1927, Doshi is one of the leading figures of modern arch
India is not a country, but a continent. It is very hard to fully grasp its diversity, so here we attempt to explore its architecture through a series of examples that go from the Himalayas to its southern extreme. As Rahul Mehrotra explains, in cont
Con una población estimada en 1.160 millones de personas y una de las mayores diversidades culturales del planeta, la India presenta un paisaje construido único, marcado por una etapa de grandes transformaciones derivadas de la liberalización económi