Achyut Kanvinde (1916–2002) was an Indian architect whose functional buildings carry elements of brutalism. Born in Achra in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, he graduated in architecture from the Sir J. J. School of Art in Bombay in 1942. The Government of India then sent him to Harvard, where he studied under Walter Gropius; he later said he owed Gropius "a tremendous debt" for opening his eyes to technology and to the psychology of space. Back in India he worked for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and founded the firm Kanvinde, Rai and Chowdhury in New Delhi with Shaukat Rai. He received the Padma Shri in 1974.
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He paid close attention to natural light, ventilation and heat, and supported vernacular building. The ATIRA (Ahmedabad Textile Industry's Research Association) complex (1954) was an early commission. His firm designed the IIT Kanpur Academic Area (c. 1966) and many dairy buildings, including the Dudhsagar Dairy in Mehsana (1970), a brutalist plant for a farmers' cooperative. The ISKCON Temple (Glory of India) in New Delhi (1998) is a late example of his play with space and form.
