For the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Balkrishna Doshi, architecture is ?never about resolving a problem; it is about discovery in the joy of making.? Doshi worked with Le Corbusier in Paris from 1951-54 and later supervised Corbusier?s work in Chandigarh and Ahmedabad, in the newly independent, postcolonial India. He was part of Chandigarh?s episodic tryst with modernity, and a major player in the reformist culture of Ahmedabad, which has been the cradle of Indian architectural modernism since independence in 1947. With a career spanning more than 60 years and with many awards and honours, including an honorary Doctorate from McGill University, Doshi has established himself as a stalwart of architecture and the Pritzker Prize comes much deserved. Though a personality of international renown, he remains a man of great humility and warmth, traits that touched me, as I found out when I had the experience of working with him directly. As a Canadian Indian, I wanted to investigate Doshi?s work when I began my PhD in architecture at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University. His architecture intrigued me due to its simplicity and aesthetics, which are hard to define, but more so due to the experience it delivers, which is hard to forget. In 2015, I had the opportunity to research his formative years at Le Corbusier?s Paris office when I received the Canadian Centre for Architecture?s Doctoral Research Award, a three-month summer residency i...