Balkrishna Doshi, an architect who helped bring modernism to his native India, died Tuesday at his home in Ahmedabad, India, which he designed and named Kamala House, after his wife. He was 95.
Professor Balkrishna Doshi of India has been selected as the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, announced by Tom Pritzker, Chairman of Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the award that is known internationally as architecture's highest honor.
The main lesson he learned from Le Corbusier, he said during a 2018 interview for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, is that there was no one right way to do a building. For that reason, he said, “I think it was my luck that I did not complete a formal school of architecture.” In 1958, Doshi spent three weeks teaching at Washington University in St. Louis, the first of many university stints in North America and Europe. During one lecture tour, in 1960, he visited the Philadelphia office of Kahn, one of the world’s great modernist architects. The next year, when he was offered the chance to design the new Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, he recommended Kahn for the job and signed on as his associate architect.
“I think of my buildings as my friends, my family,” Doshi said. “I have a conversation with them, and that’s how I create niches and staircases and openings and gardens.” In the end, he said, “my buildings are not pure and clear but designed to anticipate changes.” Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi was born Aug. 26, 1927, in Pune, southwest of Mumbai. He was the fourth child of Vithaldas Gokuldas Doshi and Radha Doshi. His mother died when he was 10 months old, and he spent his childhood in the home of his paternal grandfather, who owned a furniture-making workshop where his father worked.
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