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    Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi is an Indian architect who was the first person from India to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2018. He studied at J.J. School of Architecture in Mumbai and worked with Le Corbusier in Paris from 1951-1954. Doshi established his own studio, Vastu-Shilpa, in 1955 and helped design notable buildings like the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and the Centre for Environment and Planning Technology. His works emphasized flexible, energy-efficient designs that incorporated local materials and customs.

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    Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi is an Indian architect who was the first person from India to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2018. He studied at J.J. School of Architecture in Mumbai and worked with Le Corbusier in Paris from 1951-1954. Doshi established his own studio, Vastu-Shilpa, in 1955 and helped design notable buildings like the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and the Centre for Environment and Planning Technology. His works emphasized flexible, energy-efficient designs that incorporated local materials and customs.

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    Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi is an Indian architect who was the first person from India to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2018. He studied at J.J. School of Architecture in Mumbai and worked with Le Corbusier in Paris from 1951-1954. Doshi established his own studio, Vastu-Shilpa, in 1955 and helped design notable buildings like the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and the Centre for Environment and Planning Technology. His works emphasized flexible, energy-efficient designs that incorporated local materials and customs.

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    BALKRISHA
    VITHALADAS
    DOSHI
    LIFE HISTORY
    • Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi - 26 August 1927
    • He was an Indian architect and an important figure of South
    Asian architecture
    • he became the first indian architect to receive the pritzker architecture
    prize.
    • He did his bachelors from J.J school of architecture, Mumbai
    EARLY WORKS
    • worked for four years with Le Corbusier in Paris (1951-54)
    • He established his studio Vastu Shilpa (1955)
    • worked with Louis khan and Anant Raje when khan designed IIM
    Ahmehabad
    • He started the School of Architecture (1962.)
    • He was the fellow at the Graham foundation for advanced studies in fine
    arts.(1958)
    PHILOSOPHIES
    • “ Architecture of a building is conceived not as a container of specific
    activities but a place to be inhabited , as a place to facilitate the course of
    human environment “
    • “The success of any project depends on effective construction; contracting
    ; logistic planning and co-ordination.”
    • “An essential part of the philosophy is the construction of scale models and
    of full scale mockups to make decisions jointly with the client about the
    building “
    PRINCIPLES
    1. MYTHICAL SENSE OF SPACE
    2. VAASTU-PURUSHA MANDALA
    3. TRANSFORMATION OF ENERGY BETWEEN BUILDINGS AND PEOPLE USING SPACE
    4. FLEXIBLE APPROACH TO STRUCTURE
    5. SYMBOLISM
    6. AMORPHOUS FORMS
    7. TIMELESSNESS
    FAMOUS WORKS
     Sangath, BV Doshi's office,
    Ahmedabad (1979-80)

    Sangath departs from the usual


    architectural office as it includes a
    research centre and community related
    facilities.
    • Vaulted roofing
    • the building is sunk into the ground
    to make the vaults more prominent
    • Low-technology construction
    methods and energy-related
    elements.
    • recycled materials are used in both
    an energy-related and decorative
    way.
     Centre for environment and planning
    technology,Ahmehabad (1962)

    • An academic institution located near


    university area in Ahmehabad
    • Emphasis on open flexible space with
    hardly any doors
    • Exposed local materials for low cost,
    easy expansion and maintenance
    • The basic component is pair of parallel
    ,load bearing walls,supporting a flat
    floor slab
    OTHER WORKS
    • Indian Institute Of Management , Banglore (1962-74)
    • National Institute of Fashion Technology, Delhi(1989)
    • Amdavad ni Gufa, Ahmedabad (1990)
    • Tagore Hall, Ahmedabad
    • IFFCO township, Kalol
    • Premabhai Hall, Ahmedabad
    AWARDS
    • Pritzker Architecture Prize, 2018
    • Padma Shri, Government of India,1976
    • Honorary doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania
    • France's highest honour for arts the 'Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters',
    2011
    • 6th Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Aranya Community Housing, 1993-
    1995
    THANK YOU….

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