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Pritzker Prize - Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi
March 8 , 2018
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- Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi became the first Indian to receive the Pritzker Prize also dubbed as ‘Architecture Nobel’.
- The international Pritzker prize is awarded each year to a living architects for significant achievement.
- It was established by the Pritzker family of Chicago through their Hyatt Foundation in 1979.
- It bestows laureates with $100,000 along with a bronze medallion.
- Balkrishna Doshi is a pioneer of low-cost housing design, committed to sustainable architecture that brought modernist design to a country rooted in traditionalism.
- His noted works include Life Insurance Corporation Housing in Ahmedabad, Vidhyadhar Nagar in Jaipur, Aranya Low Cost Housing in Indore.
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