Balkrishna Doshi, one of the most thoughtful and original architects of his generation and creator of a string of highly admired community and educational buildings in India, has died, aged 95.
In 2018, Doshi became the first Indian architect to win the Pritzker Prize, and in 2022 he received the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal institute of British Architecture (RIBA), in London. These awards, the most valued in his profession, marked Doshi’s contribution to the building of independent India’s institutions over seven decades, and the international esteem in which he was held as a champion of low-cost housing and people-centred architecture; as an inspired educator of architects and planners; and for the global vision he developed as a collaborator with the Swiss master Le Corbusier, with the great US modernist Louis Kahn and with many of Japan’s finest late 20th-century architects.
22 March 2023
