From September 9 to December 12, 2020, the Chicago gallery Wrightwood 659 will exhibit the work of visionary Indian architect, urbanist, and educator Balkrishna Doshi, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2018. The show Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People will highlight Doshi’s skillful melding of Modernism with the forms and techniques of his home country.
Born in Pune, India, in 1927, Doshi's academic career in architecture began in 1947, the year India gained its independence, at the prestigious Sir J.J. College of Architecture in Mumbai. He apprenticed under Le Corbusier in the early 1950s, founded his own practice in 1956, then received a Graham Foundation fellowship in 1958 and traveled to the U.S., where he met Louis Kahn. They became friends, and Doshi started working with Kahn in 1962 on the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad.
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