GAD / PERSON PROFILE
Balkrishna Doshi
Balkrishna Doshi studied architecture in Mumbai, worked with Le Corbusier in Paris, and returned to India to oversee projects in Chandigarh and Ahmedabad.
Background & practice
Balkrishna Doshi studied architecture in Mumbai, worked with Le Corbusier in Paris, and returned to India to oversee projects in Chandigarh and Ahmedabad. He later collaborated with Louis Kahn on the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Doshi founded his own practice in 1956. His work developed from these international exchanges while drawing on Indian cultural experience, everyday life and the physical forces shaping local places.
How to read the work
Absorb ideas through collaboration without losing the texture of local life; connect spatial proportion, cultural memory and attention to nature in an architecture shaped by lived experience.
Founder and architect documented by the prize biography; named collaborations are kept distinct from sole authorship.
Explore the cited original biography and portfolio for works; no unverified personal project association has been added here.
Read comparative project studies · Our approach to ranking and attribution