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BALKRISNA
VITHALDAS
DOSHI

LIFE HISTORY
Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi was born in Pune,

India in 1927.
He did his bachelors from J. J. School of Art,
Bombay in 1950.
He worked for four years with Le Corbusier as
senior designer (1951-54) in Paris.
In 1956 he established a private practice in
Vastu-Shilpa, Ahmedabad and in 1962 he
established the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation for
Environmental Design.

LIFE HISTORY
He designed the School of Architecture and

Planning in Ahmedabad.
Doshi has worked in partnership as Stein,
Doshi & Bhalla since 1977.
Doshi worked closely with Louis khan
andAnant raje, when Kahn designed the
campus of the Indian Institute of Management.
In 1958 he was a fellow at the Graham
Foundation for Advanced Studies in the
Fine Arts.

LIFE HISTORY
Doshi has been a member of the Jury for several

international and national competitions including

the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts
and Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
He was presented in 1995,Aga Khan Award for
Architecture, for the Aranya Community Housing
in Indore, India.
Doshi's architecture provides one of the most
important models for modern Indian
architecture

PHILOSOPHIES
According to him Architecture building is

conceived for specific activities.

The building should be acc. to human
environment
Doshi's work is interrelationship of indoor and
outdoor space.
uses of materials, proper climatic response
Design according to order and function has
been present in the best modern architecture.

PHILOSOPHIES
contemporary and traditional

architecture which Doshi has masterfully

brought in designing.
The success of any project depends on
effective construction, contracting,
functional planning and co-ordination.
scale models and scale blocking to
make decisions jointly with the client
about the building.

PRINCIPLES
Doshi has defined principles in
traditional architecture which he
believes contemporary practice.
1. Doshi belief in the Sense of space
often in traditional architecture.
2. According to him space can be
modified according to the desire.

PRINCIPLES
2. The structural and formal systems that Doshi has
adopted ,2nd principle of Vaastu-Purusha
Mandala to ensure minimum standards of health
and hygiene in each project .
Vaastu (environment), Purusha (energy) and
Mandala (astrology) are combined in the diagram
that has evolved to assist builders in determining
proper orientation. North relates to the lord of
wealth, south relates to the lord f death , east to the
lord of light (the rising sun), and west to the lord of
wind. The centre is attributed to the lord of the
Cosmos .

ARANYA LOW-COST
HOUSING TOWNSHIP
INDORE , (1983-86)

SITE PLAN

SITE PLAN

Varied faade treatments with material control

NATIONAL INSTITUTE
OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY
NEW DELHI , (1997)

SITE PLAN

GROUND F. PLAN

BASEMENT PLAN

HUSAIN DOSHI GUFA

AHMEDABAD , (1992-95)

PLAN

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF
MANAGEMENT
BANGALORE , (1977-85)

PLAN

MODEL SHOWING CAMPUS

PLANNING