Title & Author:

Identity for Indian Architecture / [presented by] Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi (Vastu Shilpa Consultants).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1980.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (31 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Balkrishna Doshi In London -- Doshi Residence, Ahmedabad. Plans & Sections -- Doshi Residence, Ahmedabad. Exterior -- Doshi Residence, Ahmedabad. Staircase Area -- Doshi Residence, Ahmedabad. Living Room -- MPEB Offices, Jababpur. Site Model -- MPEB Offices, Jababpur. Top: Master Plan. Bottom: Plan Of Octagonal Module -- MPEB Offices, Jababpur. Site Model -- ECIL Housing, Hyderabad. Site Plan -- ECIL Housing, Hyderabad. House Plans -- ECIL Housing, Hyderabad. Pedestrian Lane Between Houses -- ECIL Housing, Hyderabad. Private Open Spaces -- IFFC Housing. View -- IFFC Housing. Distant View -- IFFC Housing. School -- GSFC Housing, Baroda. Water Tower -- Doshi/Vastu Shilpa Offices, Ahmedabad. Plan & Model -- Doshi/Vastu Shilpa Offices, Ahmedabad. Exterior & Open Space -- Doshi/Vastu Shilpa Offices, Ahmedabad. Interior With North Light -- Doshi/Vastu Shilpa Offices, Ahmedabad. Interior With Indirect Light -- Doshi/Vastu Shilpa Offices, Ahmedabad. Interior -- Doshi/Vastu Shilpa Offices, Ahmedabad. Exterior & Garden.

Summary:

Doshi is a truly architectural architect, one of the best alive today. He had worked with Le Corbusier on his Indian buildings before starting to practise in Ahmedabad 25 years ago, and learned from him how to use space, form and light. He extended his feeling for the interplay of these three ingredients of his art while working with Louis Kahn on the Institute of Management in his city. But he has always striven to achieve more than that. His search has been for a building form closer to Indian sensibility, reflecting the elusive synthesis of structure, form, space and symbolic value which make up the old Indian buildings he has tirelessly studied. How he has succeeded can be seen in his work which uses traditional patterns of settlement and construction, to provide a language for his design, producing a flowing continuity of volumes and spaces. In his role as founder and Dean of the Centre for Environmental Design and Technology in Ahmedabad, he attempts to further his concern for the everyday problems of architecture and planning, and the relevant skills of vernacular building.

Subject:

Architectural design India.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Design architectural Inde.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern.
India.

Added entries:

Doshi, Balkrishna V., narrator.