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Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi (1927-2023)

January 29 , 2023 425 days 377 0
  • Indian architect BV Doshi has passed away, at the age of 95, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
  • Trained under Le Corbusier, he was the only Indian to have been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
  • He was a Pioneer of Indian modernist architecture.
  • He won the gold medal awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2022.
  • Doshi was known for designing the buildings of the Ahmedabad-based Centre for Environment and Planning Technology (CEPT) and Mahatma Gandhi Labour Institute.

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