Ten key projects by the late architect Balkrishna Doshi - architecture and design

Ten key projects by the late architect Balkrishna Doshi



Following the news that Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi has passed away aged 95, Dezeen has selected 10 key projects by the Pritzker Architecture Prize and RIBA Royal Gold Medal-winner.
Doshi, who was born in 1927 in Pune, India, had an architectural career spanning six decades. He began practising as an architect under the iconic architects Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn.

Read: "India's greatest architect" Balkrishna Doshi dies aged 95

Over his lifetime, Doshi designed over 100 built projects. His work has been widely celebrated for its influence on the modern direction of Indian architecture, with Architectural Digest India describing him as "India's greatest architect".
Read on for details of ten notable projects by Doshi:
Photo by Vinay Panjwani
Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad, 1962
The Institute of Indology is a cultural building in Ahmedabad, designed to house and preserve ancient artefacts and manuscripts. It was one of Doshi's first public projects after working for Le Corbusier.
Its features include a podium and a veranda that reference traditional Indian architecture as well as a Jain upashraya, the home of a monk, which Doshi had studied prior to designing it.

Photo by Iwan Baan
Sangath Architect's Studio, Ahmedabad, 1981
Sangath Architect's Studio is Doshi's own studio in Ahmedabad. The building comprises a series of sunken, barrel-vaulted volumes that are blanketed in white mosaic tiles ext...
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