In early January, the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad (IIMA) canceled plans to demolish the 18 dormitories designed by Louis Kahn that are part of the historic campus he created there in the early 1960s. The news came after a December 23, 2020, story about the threatened destruction, by historian and critic William J.R. Curtis—who also raised the alarm in other publications—followed by an international outcry.
Kahn’s children had protested the demolition in a letter to the IIMA board, as did scholars at the Getty in Los Angeles and New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The UK-based Architectural Review circulated an online petition to stop the buildings’ destruction, and articles condemning the IIMA’s plans appeared in the Indian press.
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