Balkrishna Doshi (1927–2023) was an Indian architect, born in Pune, who pioneered modernist and brutalist architecture in India and became known for low-income housing and for designs that build in sustainability. He worked with Le Corbusier in Paris from 1951 to 1954 and with Louis Kahn on the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, and he opened his own studio, Vastu-Shilpa, in 1955. In 2018 he became the first Indian architect to win the Pritzker Prize.
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Many of his buildings are in Ahmedabad, including CEPT University (1966), Premabhai Hall (1972) and his own studio, Sangath (1981). The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (1983) is among his best-known campuses. Aranya Low Cost Housing in Indore (1989) won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Amdavad ni Gufa in Ahmedabad (1995), built to show the work of the artist M. F. Husain, is a cave-like underground gallery: its roof is a cluster of linked domes covered in a mosaic of broken crockery and waste tiles, held up inside by irregular, tree-like columns. Balkrishna Doshi's buildings are studied for low-cost housing, climate and sustainable design.
CEPT University1966 · Ahmedabad
Sangath1981 · Ahmedabad
Aranya Low Cost Housing1989 · Indore
Tagore Memorial Hall1967 · Ahmedabad
Premabhai Hall1972 · Ahmedabad
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore1983 · Bengaluru
Amdavad ni Gufa1995 · Ahmedabad