{"id":6858,"date":"2023-01-25T06:41:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T06:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citywoofer.com\/blog\/?p=6858"},"modified":"2023-01-25T12:16:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T12:16:57","slug":"balkrishna-v-doshi-le-corbusier-aide-eminent-architect-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citywoofer.com\/blog\/balkrishna-v-doshi-le-corbusier-aide-eminent-architect-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Balkrishna V Doshi, Le Corbusier Aide and Doyen of Contemporary Indian Architecture, Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The doyen of Indian architecture and a great proponent of built forms in contemporary style, Balkrishna V Doshi, passed away in Ahmedabad on January 24, 2023.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-width-img py-3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.citywoofer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/doshi-531x400.jpg\" alt=\"BV Doshi with Chandigarh planner and architect Le Corbusier\" width=\"531\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-img py-3\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div>BV Doshi with Chandigarh planner and architect Le Corbusier<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Having worked under the urban planner and architect of Chandigarh Le Corbusier, Balkrishna V Doshi had contributed to the planning of Chandigarh. \u00a0He worked for four years with Le Corbusier as Senior Designer (1951-54) in Paris and four more years in India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He also worked with Louis Kahn as an associate during the building of IIM-Ahmedabad. and his architectural work as well as his zeal and enthusiasm will always be remembered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">All officers of the Department of Urban Planning, Chandigarh, on behalf of architects and public of Chandigarh, paid their last respects to the departed soul and held a two minute silence as a mark of respect.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-width-img py-3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.citywoofer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/doshi1-711x400.jpg\" alt=\"Balkrishna V Doshi\" width=\"711\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Condoling his demise, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, \u201cDr BV Doshi Ji was a brilliant architect and a remarkable institution builder. The coming generations will get glimpses of his greatness by admiring his rich work across India. His passing away is saddening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He was known worldwide for his\u00a0contribution to modern architecture through his designs for many famous buildings and campuses in India, the most noteworthy among them being IIM Bangalore , Vidyadhar Nagar, Jaipur and NIFT Delhi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A pioneer of modern and brutalist architecture in India, he was a highly decorated figure having received the <strong>Padma Shri (1976), Padma Bhushan<\/strong> (2020) and many other awards. Born into a family in the furniture business for two generations, he brought pride to the architectural fraternity of India by becoming the <strong>first Indian architect to be awarded the internationally-acclaimed prestigious Pritzker Prize in 2018<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Apart from architecture, he also worked on urbanism, academics, urban design as well as arts, the Hussain-Doshi Gufa in Ahmedabad being a famous example of the culmination of art with architecture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The doyen of Indian architecture and a great proponent of built forms in contemporary style, Balkrishna V Doshi, passed away in Ahmedabad on January 24, 2023. 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