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Major Works of Architect: B.V. Doshi

B.V. Doshi is an Indian architect known for pioneering modern architecture in India. He worked under Le Corbusier in Paris and with Louis Kahn in Ahmedabad. Some of Doshi's most notable works include the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) in Ahmedabad, the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, and the Sangath complex in Ahmedabad. Doshi's buildings are characterized by their use of local materials and adaptation of traditional Indian architectural elements to create modern yet culturally sensitive designs. He has received numerous honors over his career, including the Pritzker Prize in 2018, for his contributions to architecture in India and globally.

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Major Works of Architect: B.V. Doshi

B.V. Doshi is an Indian architect known for pioneering modern architecture in India. He worked under Le Corbusier in Paris and with Louis Kahn in Ahmedabad. Some of Doshi's most notable works include the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT) in Ahmedabad, the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, and the Sangath complex in Ahmedabad. Doshi's buildings are characterized by their use of local materials and adaptation of traditional Indian architectural elements to create modern yet culturally sensitive designs. He has received numerous honors over his career, including the Pritzker Prize in 2018, for his contributions to architecture in India and globally.

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MAJOR

Works of Architect

B.V. Doshi
Biography
 One of the pioneer architect of
independent India, He worked under
Le Corbusier as a senior designer at
his Paris design studio(1951-1954).
 He started his practice from Paris in
1954.
 He was also an associate architect
with Louis Kahn at the
IIM,Ahmedabad.
About Him
 His many faceted personality and interests; Architecture,
Planning, Urban Design, Education, Visual Art,
Technology, Low Cost Housing, with holistic perception
has earned him international reputation.

 He has been awarded the Padamshree in 1976.


 Pritzker- 2018
 French “Officer of the order of arts and letters” in 2011
 6th Aga Khan award for Aranya Housing.
 Padmabhushan in 2020
 He appeared as himself in Mani Ratnam's O Kadhal
Kanmani, and Shaad Ali's Ok Jaanu, playing himself
His Works
 School of Architecture, Ahmedabad (CEPT)
 Indian institute of management, Bangalore
 Sangath, Ahmedabad
 Aranya: low cost housing, Indore
 Husain-Doshi Gufa, Ahmedabad
 ECIL Township, Hyderabad (1969-71)
 NIFT Delhi, 1989
 IFFCO Township, Kalol
 Sawai Gandharva, Pune
 Premabhai Hall, Ahmedabad
 Tagore Memorial Hall, Ahmedabad
 Vidyadhar Nagar, Jaipur
 IIM Lucknow
 Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad
 IIM Udaipur
His Works
CEPT, Ahmedabad
CEPT, Ahmedabad
 “…an open space with hardly any doors-no feeling of
restriction to the exchange of ideas”.

 One of the most effortless of plan forms, two parallel


walls completely open from south and north; the
south side having deep balconies and windows like
doors and in the north, the sky light allows ample
light without glare for the double height studio
spaces.

 The section derived from the plan is as


uncomplicated-exposed brick walls and over hanging
slabs and verandahs.
Main Block
Site Plan
 Doshi’s use of existing contours, brick
paved planes gradually going to lowest
levels, thus creating an ambience of
uniformity.

 Many other institute that were added to the


campus were the Visual Art Centre (VAC),
the School of Building Science and
Technology (SBST), School of Interior
Design(SID), Hussain-Doshi gufa etc.
IIM, Bangalore
IIM , Bangalore
 The program was much similar to
IIM-A, but IIM-B has been described
as the “critique” of Kahn’s IIM-A.
 Purity of material
 Play of light
 Demarcated movement pattern, this
is an interesting feature of the
project, often as high as three
storeys with perbola structure.
IIM-B Campus
Concept
 Doshi considered that Bangalore is the
garden city and hence he conceived the
classrooms as set in gardens, interlinked
with semi covered and shaded courtyards
through pergolas.

 The criteria for campus was, ”flexibility,


growth, adoption and scale”.
SANGATH, Ahmedabad
SANGATH, Ahmedabad
 Its architect’s own office, which uses vaults
as a real feature of the site.
 These vaults with different technology &
juxtaposition of several other supportive
elements; like side thick walls to take the
thrust, the two shorter sides open for light.
 The water channels running through the
site and over the building with gargoyles
make up for the remaining elevation of the
project.
Site PLan
Form
 This design was an urge to find an
appropriate style for the country; ”an
Indian style”.

 It lead Doshi to experiment on these forms,


no exposed concrete, no brise-soliel, or
followings of Le Corbusier’s five principles.

 The same is used in Gandhi Labor Institute,


where vaults were used as roof over two
storey buildings.
View
Husain-Doshi Gufa
Husain-Doshi Gufa
 It is a permanent gallery for the
artist’s-MF Husain-work at the CEPT
campus.

 This project is his constant endeavor


to the Indian traditional architecture-
caves of Ajanta, Ellora and even the
Buddhist stupas.
LOOKING INSIDE
 The light is taken by puncturing the 25mm
thick ferro-cement shell.

 The slanted columns that support the outer


shell and others for making the hollow
space more richer.

 The form of such a structure was is derived


from sequential process of modeling- with a
chain net was adopted as a method to
develop the profiles of the gufa roof.
Further reading…..
 https://www.slideshare.net/Rakeshkumar2010/bv-doshi-design

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