Balkrishna Doshi wins architecture’s top Pritzker Prize, first Indian to do so

Balkrishna Doshi wins architecture’s top Pritzker Prize, first Indian to do so

Context:

• Nonagenarian architect and reputed urban planner Balkrishna Doshi has been named this year’s winner of architecture’s highest honour — the Pritzker Prize.

Why is it in news?

• Balkrishna Doshi is the first Indian to receive the award.

Balkrishna Doshi’s contribution to architecture:

• His designs include the IIM-Bangalore; Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad; cultural spaces in Ahmedabad such as Tagore Memorial Hall, the Institute of Indology, and Premabhai Hall; and private residence Kamala House (Ahmedabad), among many others.
• The architect also designed Aranya Low Cost Housing (Indore, 1989), which currently accommodates over 80,000 individuals through a system of houses, courtyards and a labyrinth of internal pathways.