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BALKRISHNA DOSHI Timeline of his life & works 1927 1927 1938 1947 1951 He stays for some time at the Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi is Doshi escapes amputation and is Doshi’s art teacher Venekatesh Doshi follows his friend Hari Maison du Japon at the Cité born in on 26 August into left with only a slight limp after Patil suggests he study Kanhere’s invitation to visit him Internationale Universitaire. In an extended Hindu family headed seriously burning his right leg, at the Sir in and prepare for the nearby bistros he meets Indian by his grandfather Gokuldas which keeps him bedridden for Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy College exam at the Royal Institute of artists such as S. H. Raza, F. N. Narayandas, a furniture maker six months. Differences with his of Architecture in Bombay. British (RIBA) leaving Souza, Padamsee, and with his own workshop. stepmother cause Doshi and his Bombay is completely different his education at JJ School of Paritosh Sen. His room has a Several generations live together elder brother to move out of the from Pune, and Doshi feels out Architecture midway. view of ’s Swiss in one expanding house that family home. of place amidst the cosmopolitan At the 8th Congrès Internationaux Pavilion which becomes his changes its size and shape as the group of students made up of d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM) everyday “darshan,” a Sanskrit family grows over the years. , Christians, and other on “The Heart of the City” in term referring to a glimpse of religions from all over and Hoddesdon, England, which the holy. 1928 their conversations held in fluent Doshi attended as an observer, At Le Corbusier’s office Doshi Doshi is only ten months old English. Columbian German first works on the designs for when his mother dies in June. Samper, a member of Le the High Court and Governor’s Corbusier’s team, tells Doshi Palace in and, later, 1933 that they have just been chosen the Mill Owners’ Association Doshi’s father Vithaldas Doshi to design the new Indian city of building and Shodhan House in remarries and young Doshi is Chandigarh. Doshi, still waiting to , , among raised by his grandfather and write the RIBA exam, asks: “Can other projects. aunts. I join the team?” “You would not be paid for 8 months. If you want to come, come” reads the answer from . He soon moves to Paris and starts working for Le Corbusier.

Grandfather’s house at Grandfather Father Mother 477 Raviwar Peth, Pune Gokuldas Narayandas Vithaldas Radha Gokuldas

Balkrishna Doshi in 1945 age 18 Dedication from “Poème de l’angle droit,” presented to Doshi by Le Corbusier

Doshi with his painting class at the Institute of in Pune, 1945

Balkrishna Doshi with his wife Kamala in Babuben, Ahmedabad in 1955 Mother in law

Balkrishna Doshi with his wife Kamala Uncle in law, Parikh’s family in 1955 Le Corbusier’s philosophy of life, , presented to Doshi during one of Sanskrit his visits to Paris Scholar and a mentor to Doshi 1927 1955 1927 1938 1947 1951 He stays for some time at the 1952 1954 Venice, , Brindisi, Athens, 1955 1956 Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi is Doshi escapes amputation and is Doshi’s art teacher Venekatesh Doshi follows his friend Hari Maison du Japon at the Cité He becomes friends with his Doshi decides to return to India and Alexandria. Visiting the construction site of born in Pune on 26 August into left with only a slight limp after Patil suggests he study Kanhere’s invitation to visit him Internationale Universitaire. In colleagues from all over the due to his chronic colitis. While He meets the architect Vittorio Shodhan House in Ahmedabad, an extended Hindu family headed seriously burning his right leg, architecture at the Sir in London and prepare for the nearby bistros he meets Indian world, especially with Iannis waiting for his documents at Gregotti, who introduces him Doshi meets Pramod Parikh, a by his grandfather Gokuldas which keeps him bedridden for Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy College exam at the Royal Institute of artists such as S. H. Raza, F. N. Xenakis, the Greek engineer- the Indian embassy in Paris he to Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s friend of the client Shyamubhai Narayandas, a furniture maker six months. Differences with his of Architecture in Bombay. British Architects (RIBA) leaving Souza, , and architect and avant-garde meets the American architect famous series of etchings Vedute Shodhan, who invites Doshi for with his own workshop. stepmother cause Doshi and his Bombay is completely different his education at JJ School of Paritosh Sen. His room has a musician who introduced him to Joseph Allen Stein, who had di Roma. dinner at his home. This dinner Several generations live together elder brother to move out of the from Pune, and Doshi feels out Architecture midway. view of Le Corbusier’s Swiss contemporary classical music, as moved to India in 1952 and Back in India he oversees turns out to be a memorable in one expanding house that family home. of place amidst the cosmopolitan At the 8th Congrès Internationaux Pavilion which becomes his well as composers such as Edgar was about to start teaching at Le Corbusier’s projects in moment in Doshi’s life, on this changes its size and shape as the group of students made up of d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM) everyday “darshan,” a Sanskrit Varèse or . Bengal Engineering College. Chandigarh (Governor’s Palace) occasion he meets his future Doshi hires two architects and family grows over the years. Parsis, Christians, and other on “The Heart of the City” in term referring to a glimpse of Stein (together with Jai Rattan and Ahmedabad (the Mill Owners’ wife, Kamala Parikh. As Kamala founds his own practice, Vastu- religions from all over India and Hoddesdon, England, which the holy. Bhalla) eventually would become Association Building, Shodhan is Jain and Doshi a Hindu, his Shilpa (Vastu describes the total 1928 their conversations held in fluent Doshi attended as an observer, At Le Corbusier’s office Doshi Doshi’s working partner. At Le House and family accepts the marriage only environment around us; Shilpa Doshi is only ten months old English. Columbian architect German first works on the designs for Corbusier’s office Doshi meets among others) years later. It is thanks to his means “to design”), which has when his mother dies in June. Samper, a member of Le the High Court and Governor’s the Swiss architectural historian He becomes an associate collaboration with Le Corbusier since been renamed Vastushilpa Corbusier’s team, tells Doshi Palace in Chandigarh and, later, and critic Sigfried Giedion, who member of the Royal Institute of that he becomes acquainted Consultants and now includes 1933 that they have just been chosen the Mill Owners’ Association would later recommend Doshi to British Architects (RIBA). with the industrialist Kasturbhai five partners (Rajeev Kathpalia, Doshi’s father Vithaldas Doshi to design the new Indian city of building and Shodhan House in Josep Luís Sert, then chairman Lalbhai and scientist Vikram Radhika Doshi Kathpalia, remarries and young Doshi is Chandigarh. Doshi, still waiting to Ahmedabad, Gujarat, among and dean of the Harvard School Sarabhai. Both play a key role Khushnu Panthaki Hoof, and raised by his grandfather and write the RIBA exam, asks: “Can other projects. of Design, for the Graham in institution building during Sönke Hoof) and sixty employees. aunts. I join the team?” “You would not Foundation Fellowship. the post-independence era and be paid for 8 months. If you want Doshi leaves Paris, and on his become mentors and important to come, come” reads the answer way back to India he visits Milan, clients for Doshi. from Paris. He soon moves to Paris and starts working for Le Corbusier.

Representing Mons. Le Corbusier for his major buildings in Ahmedabad

On site at Mill Sanskar Kendra Sarabhai House, Mons. Le Corbusier Doshi with Le Corbusier Grandfather Grandfather’s house at Father Mother Owners’ Association Museum, Le with Doshi, and Suhrid at Shodhan house site Gokuldas Narayandas 477 Raviwar Peth, Pune Vithaldas Radha Corbusier, Doshi, Sarabhai Gokuldas Neogy, director of Sanskar Kendra and J.P. Vora, contractor

Balkrishna Doshi in 1945 age 18 Doshi with Minette de Silva in Dedication from “Poème de Paris in 1953 l’angle droit,” presented to Doshi by Le Corbusier

Doshi with his painting class at the Institute of Modern Art in Pune, 1945

Balkrishna Doshi with his wife Kamala in Babuben, Ahmedabad in 1955 Mother in law

Letter to Homi Bhabha from Le Corbusier recommending Doshi

Balkrishna Doshi with his wife Kamala Working for Mons. Le Corbusier at 35 Rue de Sèvres in Paris Uncle in law, Parikh’s family in 1955 Le Corbusier’s philosophy of life, Rasiklal Parikh, presented to Doshi during one of Sanskrit his visits to Paris Scholar and a mentor to Doshi 1955

1957 1958 American magazine Fortune, and 1959 Architect and his wife Nora. Doshi participates in the structural engineer Yoshikatsu Shortly after this encounter Doshi international competition for Tsuboi visit Ahmedabad to view travels to the for the City Hall in Toronto, Le Corbusier’s buildings. Doshi the first time where he meets Canada together with Yoshikatsu arranges a meeting with Tange, among others , Tsuboi. His collaboration with Tsuboi, and Indian industrialist Alexander Calder, and Ignazio Tsuboi, which began with his . Kasturbhai Gardella. work on Premabhai Hall, deeply invites Tsuboi to design some Dean Joseph R. Passonneau transformed his ideas about the While in , he finalizes the factory buildings for offers Doshi a position as relationship between architecture design proposal for Premabhai Textile Mills. visiting professor at Washington and structural systems. Hall in Ahmedabad together with Doshi receives the $10,000 University, St. Louis, Missouri. Yoshikatsu Tsuboi. Graham Foundation’s His trip to the United States He also meets members of International Fellowship. under the Graham Fellowship is the Metabolism movement Tejal, Doshi’s first daughter, is very educative and inspirational, (, Shigeru Aoki, born. as he gets to meet luminaries of the architecture, design, and Kionori Kikutake, Sori Yanagi, art worlds such as Mies van der and others). Their ability to Rohe, Josep Lluís Sert, Charles blend the West and the East in their designs leads Doshi to ask Doshi meets the American and Ray Eames, Friedrich Kiesler, , and himself how an Indian approach architect, visionary, designer, to architecture would look like. and philosopher Buckminster Fumihiko Maki. Doshi travels Fuller at Ahmedabad’s Calico via the west coast to Japan Mills Office while visiting Vikram where he stays for four months. Sarabhai. Also present were Leo Lionni, art director of the

1956 (ITI) CANTEEN Ahmedabad

1956 DARWAZA COMPETITION Ahmedabad

1956 KANTILAL BANKER HOUSE Ahmedabad

1958 ATIRA Learning is not linear HOUSING Ahmedabad It meanders with pauses It occurs in fits and starts Yet, it connects, relates and narrates 1958 Images and visions of life ATIRA GUEST HOUSE unheard or unseen. Ahmedabad Balkrishna Doshi

1959 CHINUBHAI HOUSE Ahmedabad

1960 Balkrishna Doshi, Piazza Del Campo in JHAVERI HOUSE Siena, Italy, August 1954 Ahmedabad 1955 1965

1957 1958 American magazine Fortune, and 1959 1960 1961 . Doshi instead 1962 Architect Kenzo Tange and his wife Nora. Doshi participates in the In May Doshi travels to Japan to wishes Kahn would design At the age of thirty-five, Doshi structural engineer Yoshikatsu Shortly after this encounter Doshi international competition for present his paper Regionality at another path-breaking project in founds the School of Architecture, Tsuboi visit Ahmedabad to view travels to the United States for the Toronto City Hall in Toronto, the World Design Conference Ahmedabad to follow Corbusier’s CEPT Centre for Environmental Le Corbusier’s buildings. Doshi the first time where he meets Canada together with Yoshikatsu in , the first international four projects in the city. Kahn Planning and Technology (now arranges a meeting with Tange, among others Philip Johnson, Tsuboi. His collaboration with post-war conference in Japan. accepts and involves Doshi in the CEPT University) in Ahmedabad, Tsuboi, and Indian industrialist Alexander Calder, and Ignazio Tsuboi, which began with his He then travels to Canada, the project. Doshi eventually agrees Kasturbhai Lalbhai. Kasturbhai Gardella. work on Premabhai Hall, deeply United States, and Europe and to represent Khan locally as an invites Tsuboi to design some Dean Joseph R. Passonneau transformed his ideas about the lectures at McGill University associate architect. While in Japan, he finalizes the factory buildings for Arvind offers Doshi a position as relationship between architecture in Montreal, the École des Doshi is involved in the initial design proposal for Premabhai Textile Mills. visiting professor at Washington and structural systems. Beaux-Arts, in Paris, ETH Zurich, stages of formation of the University, St. Louis, Missouri. Hall in Ahmedabad together with Switzerland, and the University of National Institute of Design Doshi receives the $10,000 where he teaches until 2008, His trip to the United States Yoshikatsu Tsuboi. Hamburg in Germany. (NID), which opens in September Graham Foundation’s He meets the structural engineer serves as its first honorary under the Graham Fellowship is He also meets members of Together with Manny Lionni, son and whose concept was based International Fellowship. Mahendra Raj, who becomes one director until 1972 very educative and inspirational, the Metabolism movement of Leo and Nora Lionni, Doshi on the approach to Tejal, Doshi’s first daughter, is of his closest friends. For the next Doshi lectures as a visiting as he gets to meet luminaries (Fumihiko Maki, Shigeru Aoki, visits in his studio design education as well as born. sixty years they work together on professor at the Department of of the architecture, design, and Kionori Kikutake, Sori Yanagi, in Philadelphia. Discussions on recommendations made by a number of projects, including Architecture at the University of art worlds such as Mies van der and others). Their ability to the design of Doshi’s Kamala Charles and Ray Eames in their Premabhai Hall. He holds the Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, (until Rohe, Josep Lluís Sert, Charles blend the West and the East in House and Kahn’s proposals for India Report. John Denny Memorial Lecture 1988) and attends the renowned and Ray Eames, Friedrich their designs leads Doshi to ask an embassy in sparked Doshi is assigned to build the new An invitation to lecture at Doshi meets the American at the Architectural Association International Design Conference Kiesler, Eduardo Chillida, and himself how an Indian approach a long-lasting friendship and Indian Institute of Management in in Cambridge, architect, visionary, designer, to architecture would look like. School of Architecture in London, Aspen (IDCA) at the Aspen and philosopher Buckminster Fumihiko Maki. Doshi travels UK. collaboration. Ahmedabad. Instead of accepting Massachusetts, brings him to the via the west coast to Japan this important commission, United States once again. Institute for Humanistic Studies Fuller at Ahmedabad’s Calico His second daughter, Radhika, in Aspen, Colorado. Mills Office while visiting Vikram where he stays for four months. is born. he suggests world-famous American architect Louis He lectures at the University Sarabhai. Also present were of California, Berkeley, at the Leo Lionni, art director of the Kahn to his clients Lalbhai and

1959 1956 TORONTO CITY HALL SARASPUR (ITI) CANTEEN Ahmedabad (COMPETITION) Toronto

1956 1960 DELHI DARWAZA PRL HOUSING COMPETITION Ahmedabad Ahmedabad

1956 1958-60 KANTILAL BANKER PREMABHAI HALL HOUSE FIRST PROPOSAL, Ahmedabad Ahmedabad

1958 1962 ATIRA Learning is not linear INSTITUTE OF HOUSING INDOLOGY Ahmedabad It meanders with pauses Ahmedabad It occurs in fits and starts Yet, it connects, relates and narrates 1958 Images and visions of life 1963 ATIRA unheard or unseen. KAMALA HOUSE GUEST HOUSE Ahmedabad Ahmedabad Balkrishna Doshi

1959 1963 Balkrishna Doshi, study of proportion and SHREYAS SCHOOL CHINUBHAI HOUSE light, southern France, Ahmedabad Ahmedabad August 1953

1963 1960 Balkrishna Doshi, Piazza Del Campo in JHAVERI HOUSE Siena, Italy, August 1954 LABORATORIES Ahmedabad Ahmedabad 1965

University of Cincinnati, , 1964 Rooijen, visit Ahmedabad. 1967 at Washington University, St. Together with Christopher Louis, Missouri, and the New Alexander, Doshi publishes the York Institute of Technology, New article “Main Structure Concept. York. A Role for the Individual in City Maneesha, Doshi’s third Planning” in Landscape. daughter, is born.

1963 Doshi and his eldest daughter Doshi lectures at the Doshi participates in the Doshi lectures at the University of Tejal visit Charles and Ray Eames International Laboratory of meeting of Team X, a group New York, Buffalo, the University in and stay at their Architecture and Urban Design founded in July 1953 at the of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and home in Pacific Palisades. in Milan, Italy, and at the Sir J. J. 9th CIAM Congress, which other universities. Doshi lectures at Illinois College of Architecture, Bombay. created a schism within CIAM His own house in Ahmedabad, University in Urbana-Champaign. 1965 He presents the paper by challenging its doctrinaire named Kamala House after his By chance Doshi is introduced Invitations for lectures take him Proliferating Unplanned Cities approach to urbanism, in Urbino, wife, is ready for occupancy. to by one of his to TU Delft, The Netherlands, and Their Relation to Religion, Italy, where he meets George former teachers at the Sir J. J. to Hong Kong, and finally to Architecture and the Visual Arts Candilis, Shadrach Woods, College of Architecture. Their San Diego, where he holds the at the Congress on Religion, , James Stirling, common interest in identity and Regents’ Lecture at the University Architecture and the Visual , and Jacob appropriate forms of architecture of California. Arts in New York. His article Bakema. He speaks on the bring them closer together both “Architecture for Time and subject of Time, Tolerance, personally and professionally, 1966 Change – A System” is published Identity and Continuity. and they become life-long He holds his first lecture at in the friends. Aldo van Eyck and his the Royal Institute of British magazine Kenchiku Bunka. wife, the architect Hannie van Architects in London.

1966 BHANDARI HOUSE

1967 Balkrishna Doshi, Piazza San Marco in TAGORE Venice, Italy, August 1954 MEMORIAL HALL Ahmedabad

1968 SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE (CEPT) Ahmedabad

1968 ADINATH Education is to open doors. COOPERATIVE Not one but many... HOUSING SOCIETY Pune Balkrishna Doshi

Balkrishna Doshi, Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, 1969 France, August 1961 GSFC OFFICES Baroda

1969 GSFC TOWNSHIP Baroda

1970 1970 TUBERCULOSIS SCHOOL OF PLANNING HOSPITAL Ahmedabad Ahmedabad 1965 1975 University of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1964 Rooijen, visit Ahmedabad. 1967 1968 Stein and Associates, New Delhi, 1972 Japan, and the advisory board of 1974 at Washington University, St. Together with Christopher Doshi lectures at the School India. Together with Joseph Allen Stein Building International, London Louis, Missouri, and the New Alexander, Doshi publishes the of Planning and Architecture, He attends the and Associates, Doshi develops (until 1976). York Institute of Technology, New article “Main Structure Concept. New Delhi, and the Faculty of Symposium on the Impact the masterplan for the Gulmarg York. A Role for the Individual in City Technology, M. S. University, of Urbanization on Man’s −Tangmarg area in and 1973 Maneesha, Doshi’s third Planning” in Landscape. Baroda, both in India. Environment in New York as a Kashmir, India. Doshi lectures at the Urban daughter, is born. Appointed as a member of the UN Consultant and presents Doshi is a founding member Design Institute, Bombay, the advisory board at the School the paper Human Stake in and first honorary director TVB School of Habitat Studies of Architecture, Washington Environmental Improvement. of the School of Planning in in New Delhi, and at other 1963 Doshi and his eldest daughter Doshi lectures at the University, St. Louis (until 1975). He is invited to participate in a Ahmedabad and founding institutions. Balkrishna Doshi, Joseph Allen Doshi participates in the Doshi lectures at the University of Tejal visit Charles and Ray Eames International Laboratory of limited international competition member and first dean of the He is elected vice president of the Stein, and Jai Rattan Bhalla, meeting of Team X, a group New York, Buffalo, the University in Los Angeles and stay at their Architecture and Urban Design 1969 for the Kuwait National Assembly Centre for Environmental ’s Council of begin working on a project for founded in July 1953 at the of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and home in Pacific Palisades. in Milan, Italy, and at the Sir J. J. Doshi lectures at the Indian by the government of Kuwait. Planning and Technology (CEPT). Architecture (until 1974). the International Crop Research 9th CIAM Congress, which other universities. Doshi lectures at Illinois College of Architecture, Bombay. Institute of Architects, Calcutta, Doshi is a visiting professor He is made chairman of the His article on Le Corbusier, “The Institute for the Semiarid Tropics created a schism within CIAM His own house in Ahmedabad, University in Urbana-Champaign. 1965 He presents the paper and the Indian Institute of and George A. Miller Lecturer Study Cell and Academic Council, Unfolding of an Architect” is (ICRISAT) and found the firm by challenging its doctrinaire named Kamala House after his By chance Doshi is introduced Invitations for lectures take him Proliferating Unplanned Cities Architects Convention in Bombay. at the University of Illinois, chief co-coordinator of the published in a special issue of the Stein, Doshi & Bhalla (SDB). approach to urbanism, in Urbino, wife, is ready for occupancy. to Charles Correa by one of his to TU Delft, The Netherlands, and Their Relation to Religion, He again attends the Champaign-Urbana. He lectures exchange program, member of Japanese magazine GA. The holding company has two Italy, where he meets George former teachers at the Sir J. J. to Hong Kong, and finally to Architecture and the Visual Arts International Design Conference at the National Centre for the Board of Studies, Finance and The Indian Institute of branches: SDB Delhi under the Candilis, Shadrach Woods, College of Architecture. Their San Diego, where he holds the at the Congress on Religion, in Aspen (IDCA) and presents Performing Arts, Bombay. Development Committee, and Management leadership of Stein and SDB Aldo van Eyck, James Stirling, common interest in identity and Regents’ Lecture at the University Architecture and the Visual the paper Self Sufficiency and He is appointed Honorary Fellow member of the Governing Body at is established and Doshi is Ahmedabad under Doshi. Giancarlo de Carlo, and Jacob appropriate forms of architecture of California. Arts in New York. His article Generative Centres. at the American Institute of CEPT (until 1988). commissioned to design the new At the Second International Bakema. He speaks on the bring them closer together both “Architecture for Time and Architects and Fellow at the Doshi is appointed member of the building. Congress of Architecture in subject of Time, Tolerance, personally and professionally, 1966 Change – A System” is published 1970 Indian Institute of Architects. government of India’s All India Persepolis Doshi presents the Identity and Continuity. and they become life-long He holds his first lecture at in the Japanese architecture Doshi develops a master plan for Council of Technical Education paper The Role of Architecture friends. Aldo van Eyck and his the Royal Institute of British magazine Kenchiku Bunka. the Lake Area in , (until 1975), the advisory board and Urban Planning in wife, the architect Hannie van Architects in London. India, together with Joseph Allen of A + U Publishing Co. Ltd. Industrialized Countries.

1971 1966 KUWAIT ASSEMBLY BHANDARI HOUSE COMPLEX New Delhi COMPETITION Kuwait

1967 Balkrishna Doshi, Piazza San Marco in 1972 TAGORE Venice, Italy, August 1954 ECIL TOWNSHIP MEMORIAL HALL Ahmedabad

1968 SCHOOL OF Indian cities are like blotting paper simulatenously ARCHITECTURE absorbing the local & global, holistic and sustainable. (CEPT) Ahmedabad Balkrishna Doshi

1968 Education is to open doors. 1973 ADINATH LIC MIXED INCOME COOPERATIVE Not one but many... HOUSING HOUSING SOCIETY Ahmedabad Pune Balkrishna Doshi

Balkrishna Doshi, Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, 1973 1969 1973 France, August 1961 BARC IFFCO GSFC HOUSING COLONY STAFF HOUSING OFFICES PROJECT Baroda Kalol Kota

1969 1974 1974 GSFC LIC HOUSING CHOKSHI HOUSE TOWNSHIP Hyderabad Baroda Ahmedabad

1974 1970 1970 ICRISAT TUBERCULOSIS SCHOOL OF PLANNING LABORATORY AND HOSPITAL Ahmedabad DORMITORY Ahmedabad Hyderabad 1975 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 Doshi is a visiting professor at Doshi establishes the Vastushilpa The Vastushilpa Foundation Doshi lectures at the Universität Doshi attends the Aga Khan Rice University, , Texas, Foundation for Studies and for Studies and Research Stuttgart, Fakultät Architektur Award for Architecture Seminar (until 1977). Research in Environmental in Environmental Design is und Stadtplanung, Institut on “The Changing Rural Habitat: At the Symposium on Rural Design to develop indigenous formally registered as a non- für Tragkonstruktion und Technology and Expertise” in Development held by the United design and planning standards profit organization under the konstruktives Entwerfen in , . States Agency for International for built environments that are chairmanship of Shrenikbhai Germany. Development (USAID) at the appropriate for India’s socio- Lalbhai, son of Kasturbhai He attends the International Georgia Institute of Technology, cultural and environmental Lalbhai. Conference on Architecture and Georgia, Doshi presents the milieu. He serves as its director He lectures at the College of Planning sponsored by Forum paper Rural Housing (an until 2007. Today the foundation Architecture and Environmental Architecture Communications orientation). serves as a link between Design (CAED) at California Territoire (FACT) in Lausanne, academics and professional Polytechnic State University. He Switzerland, and presents the consultants. holds the Hearst Lecture and a paper Architectural, Cultural, Doshi lectures at the College of lecture series at Aarhus School of Social and Economic Attitudes in Architecture and Urban Planning Architecture, Aarhus, Denmark. India Today. Doshi builds his own studio, at the University of Washington, He attends the Cairo Symposium Sangath, which means “moving Seattle. in Cairo, Egypt, and presents the together” in Gujarati. He begins preparing the Habitat He receives the Padma Shri paper Limits to City Growth. Bill of Rights for the government National Award. of Iran in collaboration with Josep Lluís Sert, , Nader Ardalan, and George Candilis.

1975 CENTRAL BANK OF INDIA Ahmedabad

1976 PREMABHAI HALL Ahmedabad

1977 U.S EMBASSY Architecture is like a fabric generated by life forc- SENIOR es, not an isolated object that cannot be touched. OFFICERS RESIDENCES Balkrishna Doshi New Delhi

1978 HUTHEESING VISUAL ARTS CENTRE Ahmedabad

1978 IFFCO MULTIPURPOSE HALL Kalol

1979 MADHYA PRADESH ELECTRICITY BOARD CAMPUS

1977 - 1992 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT Bangalore 1975 1985 1975 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1983 1984 1985 Doshi is a visiting professor at Doshi establishes the Vastushilpa The Vastushilpa Foundation Doshi lectures at the Universität Doshi attends the Aga Khan Doshi is made a member of Doshi is a founding member Doshi is visiting professor at Doshi is appointed member of Rice University, Houston, Texas, Foundation for Studies and for Studies and Research Stuttgart, Fakultät Architektur Award for Architecture Seminar the faculty council of the CEPT of the Kanoria Centre for Arts, the University of Hong Kong. He the Board of Studies and Faculty (until 1977). Research in Environmental in Environmental Design is und Stadtplanung, Institut on “The Changing Rural Habitat: School of Architecture (until Kasturbhai Lalbhai Campus at holds the lecture Architecture Council, School of Planning, At the Symposium on Rural Design to develop indigenous formally registered as a non- für Tragkonstruktion und Technology and Expertise” in 1988). He participates in the CEPT and is elected honorary for India at the Center for CEPT and an International Fellow Development held by the United design and planning standards profit organization under the konstruktives Entwerfen in Beijing, China. Festival d’ Automne in Paris and director and member of the Architecture in New York. and Academician of the Year at States Agency for International for built environments that are chairmanship of Shrenikbhai Germany. the 2nd Biennale di Architettura governing body. the International Academy of Development (USAID) at the appropriate for India’s socio- Lalbhai, son of Kasturbhai He attends the International in Venice, Italy. He participates in the exhibition Architecture, Bulgaria. Georgia Institute of Technology, cultural and environmental Lalbhai. Conference on Architecture and He holds the international Third World Architecture: The 1981 Georgia, Doshi presents the milieu. He serves as its director He lectures at the College of Planning sponsored by Forum workshop on urban design Search for Identity at the Pratt Doshi is a visiting professor at paper Rural Housing (an until 2007. Today the foundation Architecture and Environmental Architecture Communications curriculum development at CEPT. Institute, New York. the Massachusetts Institute orientation). serves as a link between Design (CAED) at California Territoire (FACT) in Lausanne, He begins the research project of Technology (until 1982). academics and professional Polytechnic State University. He Switzerland, and presents the Low Cost Housing. An Analytical Completes his term as dean of consultants. holds the Hearst Lecture and a paper Architectural, Cultural, Study of the Current Practices the Centre for Environmental Doshi lectures at the College of lecture series at Aarhus School of Social and Economic Attitudes in and Techniques, The Vohra Planning and Technology, (CEPT), Architecture and Urban Planning Architecture, Aarhus, Denmark. India Today. Doshi builds his own studio, House in Gujarat, India. and is involved in setting up the at the University of Washington, He attends the Cairo Symposium Sangath, which means “moving School of Building Science and Seattle. in Cairo, Egypt, and presents the together” in Gujarati. Technology at CEPT. He begins preparing the Habitat He receives the Padma Shri paper Limits to City Growth. Bill of Rights for the government National Award. of Iran in collaboration with Josep He presents the paper Spatial Lluís Sert, Moshe Safdie, Nader Hierarchies and the Role of Ardalan, and George Candilis. Small and Medium Towns at the 29th Annual Town and Country Planning Seminar in in Gujarat, India.

1980 1975 SANGATH CENTRAL BANK OF ARCHITECT’S INDIA STUDIO Ahmedabad Ahmedabad

Balkrishna Doshi, Animals, 1976 1991 PREMABHAI HALL Ahmedabad Architecture to me is celebration of life. Celebration of the breath that dwells in the space, form, material & technology. Simple - understandable - yet enigmatic. 1977 1982 U.S EMBASSY Balkrishna Doshi MAHATMA Architecture is like a fabric generated by life forc- SENIOR GANDHI LABOUR es, not an isolated object that cannot be touched. OFFICERS INSTITUTE RESIDENCES Ahmedabad Balkrishna Doshi New Delhi

1984 1978 Activities enliven space and induce KANORIA HUTHEESING VISUAL CENTRE FOR ARTS CENTRE assocations and memories. THE ARTS Ahmedabad Balkrishna Doshi Ahmedabad

1978 1984 IFFCO L.D. MUSEUM OF MULTIPURPOSE INDOLOGY HALL Ahmedabad Kalol

1984 1979 VIDYADHAR NAGAR MADHYA PRADESH MASTERPLAN AND ELECTRICITY BOARD CAMPUS URBAN DESIGN Jabalpur GUIDELINES

1982 1977 - 1992 1984 SCHOOL OF INDIAN INSTITUTE KANTILAL PARIKH BUILDING SCIENCE & OF MANAGEMENT HOUSE Bangalore TECHNOLOGY Ahmedabad 1985 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 Doshi’s essay “Between Doshi is awarded the title of The first comprehensive Doshi serves on the Master Jury Doshi’s article “Aranya: An Notion and Reality” appears in Distinguished Professor and monography of Doshi’s for the fifth cycle of the Aga Khan Approach to Settlement Design” Contemporary Indian Tradition: Dean Emeritus by the School work, Balkrishna Doshi: Award for Architecture (1990–92) is published in the international Voices on Culture, Nature, of Architecture and School of An Architecture for India by together with , magazine Spazio e Società. and the Challenge of Change, Planning at CEPT. William J. Curtis, is published. Fumihiko Maki, Renata Holod, Doshi presents the paper published by Smithsonian He is appointed chairman Doshi receives the Indian Institute and other luminaries. Brahmand. Between Built and Institution Scholarly Press. of the panel of judges at the of Architects Madhav Achwal Unbuilt at the Fifth International International Architectural Gold Medal for Architectural Alvar Aalto Symposium in Design Competition, Indira Education, the American Institute Jyvaskyla, Finland. Gandhi National Centre for Arts of Architects Award ( in New Delhi. Chapter), and the Great Gold He conducts the International Medal of France’s Académie Laboratory of Architecture and d’Architecture. Urban Design in Siena, Italy, and the International Seminar on Architectural Design and Education in and India in , Bangladesh. He is awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Aranya - An appraoch to Pennsylvania. settlement design is published by Vastushilpa Foundation.

1986 KAMALA HOUSE Ahmedabad

1987 MIDA INSTITUTE Pune

1987 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT

1988 SUNBEACH ENCLAVE HOUSING Alibaug

1989 ARANYA LOW COST HOUSING

Design converts shelters into homes, housing into communities and towns & cities into magnets of opportunities. Balkrishna Doshi

Balkrishna Doshi, 1992 Concept sketch of Sangath and GLI HOUSING sketch of a temple Ahmedabad 11 July 1978 1985 1995 1986 1987 1988 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1997 Doshi’s essay “Between Doshi is awarded the title of The first comprehensive Doshi serves on the Master Jury Doshi’s article “Aranya: An Doshi is awarded one of the Doshi becomes an honorary The art gallery Doshi is made a member of the Doshi receives the Nagar Notion and Reality” appears in Distinguished Professor and monography of Doshi’s for the fifth cycle of the Aga Khan Approach to Settlement Design” largest projects in India to design Member of the Mexican Academy in Ahmedabad is completed, a International Committee tasked Bhushan Award. Contemporary Indian Tradition: Dean Emeritus by the School work, Balkrishna Doshi: Award for Architecture (1990–92) is published in the international the Bharat Diamond Bourse. He of Architects and is named joint project together with artist with preparing the International Voices on Culture, Nature, of Architecture and School of An Architecture for India by together with Frank Gehry, magazine Spazio e Società. opens a branch of his office in Architect of the Year by JK M. F. Husain, an Indian painter of Charter on the Education of and the Challenge of Change, Planning at CEPT. William J. Curtis, is published. Fumihiko Maki, Renata Holod, Doshi presents the paper for the project. During Cement Ltd., India. international acclaim. Architects, sponsored by the published by Smithsonian He is appointed chairman Doshi receives the Indian Institute and other luminaries. Brahmand. Between Built and this time he spends four days a International Union of Architects Institution Scholarly Press. of the panel of judges at the of Architects Madhav Achwal Unbuilt at the Fifth International week in Bombay for the next four in association with UNESCO. International Architectural Gold Medal for Architectural Alvar Aalto Symposium in years. Design Competition, Indira Education, the American Institute Jyvaskyla, Finland. Gandhi National Centre for Arts of Architects Award (Chicago in New Delhi. Chapter), and the Great Gold He conducts the International Medal of France’s Académie Laboratory of Architecture and d’Architecture. Urban Design in Siena, Italy, and the International Seminar on Architectural Design and Education in Bangladesh and The Aga Khan Award for India in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Architecture is presented to He is awarded an honorary the Vastu Shilpa Foundation for doctorate from the University of Aranya - An appraoch to Aranya Community Housing. Pennsylvania. settlement design is published by Vastushilpa Foundation.

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1987 1994 INDIAN Form should not be finite but should be amorphous so that BANDRA INSTITUTE OF KURLA MANAGEMENT the experience within is loose, meandering and multiple. COMPLEX Lucknow Balkrishna Doshi Mumbai

1988 1992 SUNBEACH LARSEN ENCLAVE & TOUBRO Eyes attract images HOUSING HOUSING Alibaug Images trigger thoughts Thoughts link associations Associations conjure stories Stories create myths 1989 1994 Myths generate new realities Balkrishna Doshi, ARANYA LOW Motion study & sketch COST HOUSING NIFT New Delhi with woman & tiger Indore Balkrishna Doshi 1975

Design converts shelters into homes, housing into communities and towns 1994 AMDAVAD NI & cities into magnets of opportunities. GUFA Balkrishna Doshi Ahmedabad

Balkrishna Doshi, 1992 Concept sketch of Sangath and 1994 GLI HOUSING sketch of a temple TEJAL HOUSE Ahmedabad 11 July 1978 Baroda 1995 1998 2000 2001 2002 2003 Doshi receives the Indian Prime Massive earthquakes hit the Exhibition of photographs of few Minister’s National Award for western state of Gujarat, works of Doshi’s at Gallery Taisei, Excellence in Urban Planning and leaving at least 30,000 dead. Japan, curated by Kitagawa Design. The Vastushilpa Foundation Shigeto. Doshi travels to United States for for Studies and Research in a month with his grand-daughter Environment Design carries Khushnu and delivers talks out rehabilitation work after the at University of California and earthquake in , working University of San Luis Obispo and together with villagers in Gandhi spends time with Frank Gehry Nu Gam, Ludiya, and many other The international studio Habitat during his stay there. villages. Design in Urban Context is conducted by the Vastushilpa Foundation Design Studio together with the University of Stuttgart, the University of , Switzerland, and the University of Aarhus. The studio is held every year for twelve years until 2015 The Complete Architecture of and restarts in 2019. Balkrishna Doshi: Rethinking for the Developing World by James Steele

1995 CHESTER HERWITZ ART GALLERY Ahmedabad

1995 Building should evolve to express time. UDAYAN MIXED INCOME Balkrishna Doshi HOUSING

1998 OMPURI TEMPLE Matar

1999 JNANA PRAVAH

1998 DHAYARI TOWNSHIP Pune

Balkrishna Doshi, Bird & Motorcycle January 1967

1999 CIDCO MEGHDOOT URBAN CENTRE

Balkrishna Doshi, Sketch of an Ape 1970 2000 CYBERABAD ENCLAVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN Hyderabad 1995 2010 1998 2000 2001 2002 2003 2005 2007 2008 2009 2011 Doshi receives the Indian Prime Massive earthquakes hit the Exhibition of photographs of few Doshi serves on the Pritzker He works on the project Tellapur The film Doshi is made by Premjit Minister’s National Award for western state of Gujarat, works of Doshi’s at Gallery Taisei, Prize jury (until 2007). Integrated Township with Harry Ramachandran. Excellence in Urban Planning and leaving at least 30,000 dead. Japan, curated by Kitagawa He is awarded an honorary Cobb for Tishman Speyer in Design. The Vastushilpa Foundation Shigeto. doctorate by McGill University. Hyderabad. Doshi travels to United States for for Studies and Research in a month with his grand-daughter Environment Design carries Khushnu and delivers talks out rehabilitation work after the at University of California and earthquake in Bhuj, working University of San Luis Obispo and together with villagers in Gandhi spends time with Frank Gehry Nu Gam, Ludiya, and many other The international studio Habitat during his stay there. villages. Design in Urban Context is conducted by the Vastushilpa Foundation Design Studio together with the University of Stuttgart, the University of Bern, Switzerland, and the University of Aarhus. The studio is held every year for twelve years until 2015 A+U magazine publishes the The Complete Architecture of Paths Uncharted, Doshi’s and restarts in 2019. cover essay on Doshi’s works. Balkrishna Doshi: Rethinking autobiography, is published by Doshi receives the Global Award Modernism for the Developing the Vastushilpa Foundation. for Lifetime Achievement for World by James Steele Sustainable Architecture, Institut Doshi is made an Officer of Francais d’Architecture, Paris. France’s Order of Arts and Letters.

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1998 Built form is a backdrop. It heightens our format 2004 OMPURI sensibilities and recapitulates nostalgic DINESHBHAI TEMPLE HOUSE Matar associations. Ahmedabad Balkrishna Doshi

2004 1999 MANEESHA JNANA PRAVAH Varanasi HOUSE

2004 1998 DIGAMBAR JAIN DHAYARI TEMPLE COMPLEX TOWNSHIP (Unrealised) Pune Pune

Balkrishna Doshi, Bird & Motorcycle January 1967 2007 2008 1999 TELLAPUR TECHNO CIDCO MEGHDOOT CITY Masterplan LABOUR INSTITUTE, URBAN CENTRE and Urban Design (EXTENSION PROPOSAL) Nagpur Guidelines, Ahmedabad Hyderabad

Balkrishna Doshi, Sketch of an Ape 1970 2000 2012 CYBERABAD ENCLAVE KANORIA CENTRE FOR ARTS DEVELOPMENT PLAN GALLERY Hyderabad Ahmedabad 2010 2012 Harnessing the Intangible: 2015 2016 2017 Doshi’s Talks, a compilation of Collected Essays on the Work of The retrospective film on Doshi Vastushilpa Consultants is Doshi turns 90. five essays, is published by the Balkrishna Doshi is published by and his work Celebrating Habitat invited to participate in the The exhibition Celebrating Vastushilpa Foundation. the National Institute of Advanced is an official selection at the design competition for the capital Habitat: The Real, the Virtual Studies in Architecture (NIASA), Milano Design Film Festival. complex of the new state capital and the Imaginary curated by 2014 India. The film was sponsored by the in Andhra Pradesh, Khushnu Hoof is shown at Power The first comprehensive Council of Architecture, India, India. The other two competitors Station of Art , China. exhibition of Doshi’s and NIASA and distributed to 500 invited to the competition are Work, ‘Celebrating Habitat: architecture schools throughout Fumihiko Maki and Richard The Real, the Virtual and the India. Rogers. Imaginary,’ curated by architect Khushnu Panthaki Hoof, opens at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi. Doshi is invited by the Bengal Institute in Dhaka to take part in a workshop and lecture together with Juhani Pallasmaa. Doshi makes a cameo appearance in the film OK Kanmani directed by Mani Ratnam.

2014 REVITALIZATION OF BHADRA PRECINCTS Ahmedabad

2016 CAPITOL COMPLEX COMPETITION Amravati

BALKRISHNA DOSHI WRITINGS ON ARCHITECTURE & IDENTITY

Book on Kamala House published by Apartmento with text by Durga Chew Bose and Balkrishna Doshi : Balkrishna Doshi‘s interview in Apartmento issue 22 by photographs by Elle Decor December 2017 edited by Writings on Komal Sharma and photographs by Bikramjit Bose Quentin de Briey Doshi on account of his Architecture & Identity 90th Birthday published by ArchiTangle edited by Vera Simone Bader

Balkrishna Doshi with his partners at Vastushilpa Consultants : Rajeev Kathpalia, Radhika Doshi Kathpalia, Khushnu Panthaki Hoof & Sönke Hoof, 2018

Balkrishna Doshi‘s paintings from 2014 to 2019, now at a private museum in Switzerland 2010 2020 2012 Harnessing the Intangible: 2015 2016 2017 Talks - compilation of 5 talks by 2018 2019 Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture Doshi’s Talks, a compilation of Collected Essays on the Work of The retrospective film on Doshi Vastushilpa Consultants is Doshi turns 90. Doshi is published in Chinese Balkrishna Doshi receives the The first comprehensive touring for the People, opens at five essays, is published by the Balkrishna Doshi is published by and his work Celebrating Habitat invited to participate in the The exhibition Celebrating and Thai. 40th Pritzker Prize sponsored exhibition of Doshi’s work Architekturmuseum , Vastushilpa Foundation. the National Institute of Advanced is an official selection at the design competition for the capital Habitat: The Real, the Virtual Doshi holds the 27th Annual by the Hyatt Foundation and Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture Germany on 17th October 2019. Studies in Architecture (NIASA), Milano Design Film Festival. complex of the new state capital and the Imaginary curated by Architecture Lecture at the Royal becomes the 45th Pritzker for the People curated by 2014 India. The film was sponsored by the Amaravati in Andhra Pradesh, Khushnu Hoof is shown at Power Academy of Arts, London. Architecture Prize Laureate and Khushnu Hoof and coordinated 2020 The first comprehensive Council of Architecture, India, India. The other two competitors Station of Art Shanghai, China. The Indian media company the first to hail from India. by the Design Museum Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture exhibition of Doshi’s and NIASA and distributed to 500 invited to the competition are Ogaan Publications invites 250 of team opens at the Vitra Design for the People opens at Work, ‘Celebrating Habitat: architecture schools throughout Fumihiko Maki and Richard Balkrishna Doshi’s friends from Museum, Weil am Rhein, Architecture Museum Vienna The Real, the Virtual and the India. Rogers. all over the world to celebrate Germany. from 25th March 2020. Imaginary,’ curated by architect his ninetieth birthday at the Khushnu Panthaki Hoof, opens Millowners’ Association Building The first monograph focussing Balkrishna Doshi is awarded at the National Gallery of Modern by Le Corbusier in Ahmedabad. on Doshi’s work in twenty years award, which is The magazine AD India dedicates Art in New Delhi. Doshi is invited by the Bengal The Vastushilpa Foundation is published by the Vitra Design the third highest civilian honour an entire issue to Doshi, his Institute in Dhaka to take part in organizes a talk on “Porosity, Museum and the Wüstenrot by the Government of India. life, and his work following the a workshop and lecture together Paradox Practice,” with Juhani Foundation in cooperation with Pritzker announcement. with Juhani Pallasmaa. Pallasmaa, Balkrishna Doshi, the Vastushilpa Foundation. Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture Doshi makes a cameo and Rolf Fehlbaum, Chairman Edited by Khushnu Panthaki for the People opens at Doshi delivers the 34th appearance in the film OK Emeritus and active member Hoof, Mateo Kries & Jolanthe Wrightwood 659 in Chicago, Coomaraswamy Lecture at Kanmani directed by Mani of the board of directors of the Kugler. Winner of Best Book on United States from 9th Chhatrapati Shivaji Museum Ratnam. Swiss furniture company Vitra. Contemporary Architecture 2019 September 2020. Vastu Sangralaya in Mumbai. at the Richard Schlagman Art Book Awards in London. Listed as the top books of 2019 by Critic’s Choice

2014 REVITALIZATION OF BHADRA PRECINCTS Ahmedabad

2016 CAPITOL COMPLEX COMPETITION Amravati

BALKRISHNA DOSHI WRITINGS ON ARCHITECTURE & IDENTITY

Book on Kamala House published by Apartmento with text by Durga Chew Bose and Balkrishna Doshi : Balkrishna Doshi‘s interview in Apartmento issue 22 by photographs by Elle Decor December 2017 edited by Writings on Komal Sharma and photographs by Bikramjit Bose Quentin de Briey Doshi on account of his Architecture & Identity 90th Birthday published by ArchiTangle edited by Vera Simone Bader

Balkrishna Doshi with his partners at Vastushilpa Consultants : Rajeev Kathpalia, Radhika Doshi Kathpalia, Khushnu Panthaki Hoof & Sönke Hoof, 2018

If you want freedom break away from the normal conventions. Become like a child, see things afresh, work more with your feelings than intellectual or rational thoughts. Because they are fed or given to you by others to make you one of them. Look how children paint, draw figures, how they see or put colours. They have nothing to do with absolute reality. Balkrishna Doshi‘s paintings from 2014 to 2019, now at a private museum in Switzerland Because reality is also an illusion. But your education and age has made you think that way. Reality is what you and others percieve externally and similarly. For example, how can form, colour, structure, order be accepted because historians say so. Break away from all the rules - forget history books. Go back to your inner perceptions. See things as if you are noticing them for the first time. Then only you will be able to do something of your won. Balkrishna Doshi May 27, 1989 (Letter to his 3 daughters) Looking back, I have come to believe that my life over the years has been a long and rather unusual journey. A series of events have coalesced like drops of water that gradually became a spring, then a river, and then a part of many rivers. In the process, this journey traversed many lands, some open, some confined. There were times when the flow ebbed, even stopped, but those pauses gave rise to lakes, small and big. Then there came floods that rose above the banks and pulled me out of slumber.Over the years, I have been to so many lands, forests and gardens in all the seasons. And in the process, like a river, I have gathered waters from a multitude of regions, flora and

fauna and culture enriched by the wisdom of their visionaries.These This timeline is designed by Vastushilpa Foundation for Studies and Research in Environmental Design, Ahmedabad, India. Text : Complied by Khushnu Panthaki Hoof & Jolanthe Kugler All rights reserved. No part fo this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieal system, or transmitted any form by means without prior consent of the publisher. Copyright : VSF 2019 travels have helped to answer innumerable questions. Just as the muddy waters of a river at the source clear up as it flows on, I have gained insight and clarity about the world around me.

Balkrishna Doshi

This exhibition is a project of the and the Wüstenrot Foundation in cooperation with the Vastushilpa Foundation