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B. V. Doshi

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  • Brutalism
  • Critical Regionalism
  • ★ Pritzker Architecture Prize
  • ★ RIBA Royal Gold Medal

Career

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Worked under Le Corbusier on Chandigarh (1951–54) and under Louis Kahn on the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (1962–74) before founding Sangath (his Ahmedabad studio, 1980) and a body of housing work — Aranya Low Cost Housing (Indore, 1989).

Style

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Modernist principles inflected by Indian climate, craft, and social grain. His housing typologies were always incremental and self-finishing.

Legacy

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First Indian Pritzker laureate (2018). Aranya housed approximately 80,000 residents in 7,000 incrementally-built homes.

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