AHMEDABAD: Renowned Indian architect, planner, and Pritzker laureate Balkrishna V Doshi passed away on Tuesday at his residence in Ahmedabad, his family announced. His demise brought a deluge of tributes from Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fellow architects celebrating his life that spanned 95 years. Doshi is the only Indian to have been awarded both the Royal Gold Medal and the Pritzker Architecture Prize in their lifetime, and in 2020, was also awarded the Padma Bhushan.
"Loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. No one loved life more than him, 'Anand Karo' - Celebrate Life as he would always say. He had so many people that he loved dearly and who loved him back. He will leave for his onward journey from our residence Kamala House," his family said in a statement.
Condoling his demise, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, "Dr 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." Born in 1927 in Pune to a family of furniture makers, Doshi studied at the JJ School of Architecture Bombay, before working for four years with Le Corbusier as Senior Designer (1951-54) in Paris and four more years in India. He worked with Louis Kahn as an associate during the building of IIM-Ahmedabad, and they continued to collaborate after.
Across his storeyed career, Doshi has a plethora of iconic projects to his name, including the Hussain-Doshi Gufa (now called Ahmedabad-ni-Gufa), IIM-Bangalore, the CEPT University campus (Ahmedabad), the National Institute of Fashion Technology in New Delhi and the Physical Research Laboratory (Ahmedabad).
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