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MODERN INDIAN ARCHITECTS

B.V.DOSHI
 Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, an Indian Architect is considered an important figure of
South Asian Architecture and is famous for his contribution to evolution of architectural
discourse in India. He has helped to define an Indian vocabulary especially in the post-
independence era when the country was searching for an identity.
 Corbusier had a profound impact on Doshi but he always interpreted Corbusier’s
modernism through local conditions of site, climate and available technology.
 He realized that his earlier works were somewhat foreign & out of milieu and that they
did not appear to have roots in the soil; but later he tried to understand about India and its
traditions and social customs.
Sangath – a design Laboratory
Sangath is a design laboratory where professionals from diverse disciplines are invited to
explore new visions, concepts and solutions.
 The building is inspired by temple architecture with the use of ‘shikhara’ like vaults and
high plinths. It is an ensemble of vaults and flat roofs at varying heights and angles. Some
of the buildings have been sunk below the ground level so that some vaulted roofs rise
only to eye level.
 Three ways of making light enter were devised:
(i) Through regular windows punctured in the walls.
(ii) Direct penetration from flat roofs through glass roofs.
(iii) Through skylights.
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Aranya Housing Community


6 km from Indore, the housing community is design around a central spine comprising the
business district. The housing complex imbibes a lot of vernacular spatial features:
1. Courtyards at the rear side that open to the streets.
2. Internal streets and squares for public interactions.
3. Layout based on income groups: rich on the periphery.
NIFT, Delhi
 This institutional building draws its concept from a step well in Ahmadabad and takes
glimpses from an Indian Bazaar. It livened up by design displays and movement of
students as well as visitors throughout the entire space.
 The building is characterized by open as well as glass screened bridges that not only act
as movement paths but also separate public courts and provide a space for catwalks for
fashion shows or display of designs.
Hussain Doshi Gufa
It is an underground art gallery in the campus of CEPT, Ahmadabad. The form of roof shell
is guided by computer aided design and the structure built in ferrocement is in the form of
skeletal skin and wire mesh.
CHARLES CORREA
He is an Indian Architect and urban planner known for adapting modernist trends to local
climate and building systems.
 In the realm of urban planning he is known for his sensitivity towards the needs of the
poor and for his use of traditional materials and methods. He is highly influenced by Le
Corbusier’s use of striking concrete forms.
 For Correa, the features of the site are very important. Complementary to the Indian
landscape, he worked on organic and topographical forms as seen in his Gandhi Smarak
Sanghralaya in Ahmadabad and the Handloom Pavillion in Delhi.
 Considerations of the Indian climate also drove many of his decisions. In response to
climate, Correa often employed a large oversailing shade roof or parasol, an element first
seen in Engineering Consultant India Ltd Complex, Hyderabad.
 He is brilliantly inventive in his deployment of certain timeless themes in India such as –
journey, passage, void and representation of cosmos. He uses them to create ambitious
new spaces and structures.
 His notable contributions to modern architecture in India include LIC Building, National
Crafts Museum and British Council in New Delhi, Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur, and
Bharat Bhawan in Bhopal and Urban Design Research Institute in Bombay.
Correa’s ideas on Mass Housing
 For residential commissions, he developed the ‘Tube House’ – a narrow house form
designed to conserve energy. This form was realized in Rama Krishna House and Parekh
Residence both in Ahmadabad.
 When designing in the midst of overpopulated cities, he tried to create quasi-rural housing
environment as is evident in his Belapur housing sector in New Bombay.
 In all his urban planning commissions, Correa avoided high-rise hosing solutions
focusing instead on low-rise solutions to emphasize on human scale to promote a sense of
community.

A.P. KANVINDE
He is an Indian architect known as the forefather of modern Indian architecture. He was
highly influenced by architect Walter Gropius and his teacher Claude Batley. He started as a
rationalist, his buildings showing pure structural forms. But later, his buildings exhibited a
unique play of levels and volumes generating interest and life in the rude and blunt concrete
blocks. Some common features of his modern institutional buildings include:
(i) Clean and horizontal volumes.
(ii) Aesthetically pleasing proportions of fenestration.
(iii) Ribbon window.
(iv) Unexposed grid frame structure.
Doodhsagar Dairy
 The Doodhsagar dairy is monstrous, raw, and probably one of the first outbursts of what
can be called Kanvinde’s brutalism. It presents a stark contrast to his character.
 The form is very rough and blocky and the building has been kept low-profile.
National Science Centre, New Delhi
 A six-storey structure situated on a site that forms part of the Trade Fair complex. The
building comprises an auditorium, conference rooms, lecture hall, library, training centre,
exhibition areas, and a cafeteria.
 It is set of vertical volumes that rise gradually- this building is visually appealing and
unimposing and has a large grand flight of steps on its entrance.
 The building seems to have a simple & efficiently designed structural system and a
functional approach in its layout.
 The building is finished with aggregate plaster using local Delhi blue quartzite stone
chips with bands in Dholpur stone chips, and polished Kota stone with Jaisalmer stone
bands are used for the flooring.

JJ COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
 Sir J.J College of architecture is considered one of the foremost institutions of
Architecture in India and is a recognized college of architecture all over the world.
 The origin can be traced to the founding of a Draftsman's Class, started with a view to
produce men with a practical and really useful knowledge, fit to be employed in an
Architect's office attached to the Sir J.J School of Arts in 1896, set up in the year 1857 by
the erstwhile Government of Bombay from the grants made by the philanthropist Sir
Jamshedji Jeejeebhoy, the first Baronet of Bombay.
 A great concern of the school was to produce architecture that was modern and had
symbolic references to India, and suitable for the ways of life and climate of the country.

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