Chicago art space Wrightwood 659 is presenting a showcase of works by Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi. Curator Khushnu Panthaki Hoof selects four projects that show how the Pritzker Prize-winner interprets Hindu philosophy in architecture.
Twenty Doshi projects from 1958 to 2014 are shown through drawings and models, artworks, sketches, video and photography at the exhibition, which is on view at the Tadao Ando-designed Wrightwood 659 until 12 December.
Hoof, an architect and director of the Vastushilpa Foundation, curated and designed the exhibition, which is called Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People.
The buildings are arranged into four themes that each demonstrate elements of Doshi's architecture philosophy ? Home and Identity, Creating a Livable City, Shaping an Integrated Education and Building Academic Institutions.
"For him a building is created out of memories, associations, sounds, forms, spaces and images, porous and open-ended in nature," the curator told Dezeen.
"In most of his buildings you don't notice them as being dominate, rather you notice the life that goes on around them," she continued.
"Further, his works underline his interpretation of the essence of life according to the cyclic notion of time in the Hindu philosophy namely: blossoming ? accomodative, growing, adaptable & perceptive to change over time; expanding ? open endedness, holistic approach and well integrated with the surrounding; melting ? merging ...