Indian Institute of Management Bangalore — Balkrishna Doshi, 1983: photos for a case study

About Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM Bangalore or IIMB) is a public business school in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Established in 1973, it is the third of the Indian Institutes of Management and was declared an Institute of National Importance under the Indian Institutes of Management Act, 2017.

The design of IIMB campus was led by the famous architect B.V. Doshi, , the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, RIBA 2022 Royal Gold Medal recipient, and Padma Bhushan awardee. He had worked with the pioneering architect Le Corbusier in Paris, and had later assisted the renowned architect Louis Kahn, in designing IIMA buildings. He had also founded and designed the School of Architecture in 1966. His firm, the erstwhile M/s Stein, Doshi, & Bhalla (aided by M/s Kanvinde & Rai) was commissioned to design the campus. The design was inspired by the 16th-century historic city of Fatehpur Sikri near Agra, and the 13th-century Meenakshi Temple in Madurai, along with the lush gardens of Bangalore, also known as the Garden City of India. The first director, N.S. Ramaswamy, had asked Doshi to create a campus to reflect the ethos of the Bangalore city - "green and alive [sic]".

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