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Balkrishna Doshi : architecture for the people / concept, Mateo Kries, Kushnu Panthaki Hoof, Jolanthe Kugler ; editors, Jolanthe Kugler, Khushnu Panthaki Hoof, Meike Wolfschlag ; authors, Kazi Khaleed Ashraf [and 9 others] ; photographers Iwan Baan [and 3 others] ; translations, Tradukas GbR, Mark Willard (English), Nina Hausmann, Angelika Körber, Frank Süßdorf (German).

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Weil am Rhein, Germany : Vitra Design Museum ; Ludwigsburg, Germany : Wüstenrot Foundation ; Ahmedabad, India : In cooperation with Vastushilpa Foundation, [2019]

Doshi, Balkrishna V. -- Exhibitions.

Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

Architecture, Modern -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.

Brutalism (Architecture) -- India -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

Brutalism (Architecture) -- India -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.

Architects -- India -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

Architects -- India -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.

9783945852316 (hardcover) :

3945852315 (hardcover)

383 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color), plans ; 31 cm

Foreword / Vita Design Museum and Wüstenrot Stiftung ; Vastushilpa Foundation -- Introduction / Khushnu Panthaki Hoof -- Interview / Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Balkrishna Doshi -- Essays : A modernism for India / Samanth Subramanian -- Opening doors / Martha Thorne -- Three master mediators / Juhani Pallasmaa -- Sangath as a landscape event / Kazi Khaleed Ashraf -- The vernacular / Vera Simone Bader -- The home and the city / Rajeev Kathpalia -- Doshi's Pritzker / Kenneth Frampton -- Memory, associations, and timlessness / Balkrishna Doshi -- Living in humaneness / Nicholas Fox Weber -- Selected projects, 1958-2014 -- Portfolios : Portfolio I: photo essay / Iwan Baan -- Portfolio II: sketches from Balkrishna Doshi's notebooks -- Portfolio III: Doors and door handles -- Portfolio IV: photo essay / Vinay Panjwani -- Archive : Chronology -- Catalogue of works.

Balkrishna V. Doshi (b. 1927 in Pune) is one of the most influential pioneers of modern architecture in India. His life's work was honored in 2018 with the prestigious Pritzker Prize. Doshi has realized more than one hundred projects, including administrative and cultural facilities, housing developments, and residential buildings. He has become internationally known for his visionary urban planning and social housing projects, as well as his involvement in education. His most important buildings include the School of Architecture in Ahmedabad (1966-68) and the Aranya housing development in Indore (1989). 'Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People' is the first overview of the architect's work in over twenty years, analyzing his most important works and providing timely context to his oeuvre. In-depth academic texts by outstanding experts in the field, including Kenneth Frampton, Kazi Ashraf, and Juhani Pallasmaa, give insights into the inspiration behind Doshi's work and background to his projects, as well as his lasting influence on younger generations. The richly illustrated survey comes complete with a detailed biography and new photographs of his buildings, which demonstrate the impressive timeliness of the Indian master's approach to a wide variety of typologies.

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