After a threat to demolish Kahn’s dormitories at the Indian Institute of Management was averted two years ago, the board plans to raze the entire campus.
The 2022 recipient of the Royal Academy's annual award is an itinerant architect who deploys vernacular construction in southern India to create extraordinary forms and spaces.
“The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947 – 1985,” on view at the Museum of Modern Art, ignores the failings of modernist design and planning.
The celebrated architect and Pritzker Laureate has over 100 built projects across his decades-long career that has emphasized urban planning, social housing, and education.
Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker left a major legacy with their architecture and planning for the government seat in India’s capital. While their buildings remain, drastic plans for the Raj Path threaten the entire setting.
The exhibition "Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People," on view through December, plays up Doshi’s fusion of Indian vernacular traditions and Modernism.
From September 9 to December 12, 2020, the Tadao Ando–designed gallery will exhibit the work of the visionary Indian architect, urbanist, and teacher, who won the Pritzker Prize in 2018. See exclusive images from the show.