APRIL 2015 – ARCHITECT MYRTO VITART – PARIS

I hope very much the so beautiful work of BV Doshi will be respected as it remains an important contribution not only for Indian but also for international architectural production and international architectural community..

You will find attached the signed appeal. Kind regards, Myrto

Name Architect Myrto Vitart Atelier JEAN MARC IBOS MYRTO VITART address 4, Cité Paradis 75010 Paris, France

------RESPECT THE BUILDINGS AND CAMPUS OF CEPT - SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, AHMEDABAD

The CEPT campus buildings designed by B.V.Doshi, are a significant institution and a reference for Architects and schools of Architecture from around the planet. The School of Architecture buildings are as valuable as buildings that are 100 years old or more. Such buildings are respected and valued the World over. The spirit of freedom and openness that the Architecture of CEPT expresses has had a deep impress on generations of students, faculty and architects.

Architects understand that any growing institution needs to adapt and modify. Any expansion / modification should be entrusted to Prof. B.V.Doshi – the founding architect and undertaken with his consent.

This architecture has shaped & influenced many generations of architects whose work is valued, world over today - we shall not erase / modify any of the buildings, which mark a definitive moment of our modern architectural history and continue to remain a very relevant reference today.

Architects and artists, who have visited the campus have been moved by the experience and endorsed the architectural significance of this unique School of Architecture and the CEPT campus – Steven Holl, Juhani Pallasmaa, Rajeev Sethi, Fumihiko Maki, James Stirling, Bhimsen Joshi, SANAA, Toyo ITO, A Kanvinde and several others. A large group of architects, alumni and students appeal to respect the architecture of the CEPT campus.

We trust that this appeal will be considered by the Ahmedabad Education Society and the CEPT administration while decisions for the future development of the campus are taken.

Thank you

Name Architect Myrto Vitart Atelier JEAN MARC IBOS MYRTO VITART Address 4, Cité Paradis 75010 Paris, France ------About Architect Myrto VITART

MYRTO VITART(1945) studied architecture at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, UP7, in Paris, and graduated (DPLG) in 1984. She worked from 1979 to 1985 with Jean Nouvel and founded in 1985, with Emmanuel Blamont, Jean-Marc Ibos and Jean Nouvel, the Jean Nouvel et Associés office. At that time, she completed the Onyx Cultural Centre in Saint-Herblain, inaugurated in 1988. In 1990 she creates with Jean-Marc Ibos, the Jean Marc Ibos Myrto Vitart office. The Museum of fine Arts of Lille, the first completed project of the office and winner of the Equerre d’Argent in 1997 and of the DuPont Benedictus price in 1998, earned her international recognition. Many studies follow, institutional or private, as well as completed projects such as the Fire Station in Nanterre, the Maison des Adolescents - Cochin Hospital in Paris, inaugurated in 2004, the Departmental Archives of Ille et Vilaine in Rennes in 2006, and the Andre Malraux Library in Strasbourg in 2008. Myrto Vitart has been Visiting Professor at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture, Paris, in 1994 / 1995 then in 2010 / 2011, at the Columbia University, New-York, in 2000 / 2001 and at the EPFL, ...