articles
textual records
AP206.S4.083
circa 2000s
The Universe of an Architect-Planner: India paper by Balkrishna V. Doshi
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AP206.S4.083
textual records
circa 2000s
textual records
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4 typescript(s)
Letters from Le Corbusier to Mr. Chimanbhai, and a letter from Balkrishna V. Doshi to Anand Sarabhai
DR1990:0022:023-026
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- Part of a larger group of prints and other works from the design development process of Le Corbusier's unexecuted Villa Chimanbhai project, acquired from the Chimanbhai family. Included are photographs of a model, cut-outs sent to the client which demonstrate changes in the dimensions of individual rooms, and letters from the office of Le Corbusier to the client. Also includes a letter dated 1989 by B.V. Doshi indicating his interest in the project. The larger group of Chimanbhai material includes a model, which is not the model in photographs DR1990:0022:001 - DR1990:0022:004, and at least three series of prints -- some with annotated changes. The works were accessioned in the groups that they were received in.
architecture
3 December 1953, 26 April 1954, and 10 April 1989
Letters from Le Corbusier to Mr. Chimanbhai, and a letter from Balkrishna V. Doshi to Anand Sarabhai
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DR1990:0022:023-026
Description:
- Part of a larger group of prints and other works from the design development process of Le Corbusier's unexecuted Villa Chimanbhai project, acquired from the Chimanbhai family. Included are photographs of a model, cut-outs sent to the client which demonstrate changes in the dimensions of individual rooms, and letters from the office of Le Corbusier to the client. Also includes a letter dated 1989 by B.V. Doshi indicating his interest in the project. The larger group of Chimanbhai material includes a model, which is not the model in photographs DR1990:0022:001 - DR1990:0022:004, and at least three series of prints -- some with annotated changes. The works were accessioned in the groups that they were received in.
textual records
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4 typescript(s)
3 December 1953, 26 April 1954, and 10 April 1989
architecture
textual records
AP149.S3.SS1.075
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Contains correspondence with B.V. Doshi.
1978-1990
Corresondence with Vastu-Shilpa Foundation for a research on low-income housing in India
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AP149.S3.SS1.075
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Contains correspondence with B.V. Doshi.
textual records
1978-1990
textual records
AP149.S2.SS3.072
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Includes some documents related to Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi and the Aranya Township project.
1961-2008
Documentation on urbanism, education and socio-economic development
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AP149.S2.SS3.072
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Includes some documents related to Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi and the Aranya Township project.
textual records
1961-2008
Project
AP149.S1.1984.PR01
Description:
This project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's post-occupancy study for Aranya Township, India, which was a newly development township completed in 1988 near Indore. Minimum Cost Housing Group initially work on the design of a plot of the township, which was the first one to be built and served as an alternative model to the whole township. The masterplan for the township was created by architect Balkrishna Doshi and the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation in 1981. The other plots started to be planned by and built in 1989. The Minimum Cost Housing Group then returned to Aranya to undertake the post-occupancy survey of the whole site and students from the group kept studying the site up to 2018. The material for this file was produced between 1984 and 2012. The project series contains slides, study drawings of the township and a publication on the post-occupancy study by the McGill group.
1984-2002
Aranya township post-occupancy study
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AP149.S1.1984.PR01
Description:
This project series documents Minimum Cost Housing Group's post-occupancy study for Aranya Township, India, which was a newly development township completed in 1988 near Indore. Minimum Cost Housing Group initially work on the design of a plot of the township, which was the first one to be built and served as an alternative model to the whole township. The masterplan for the township was created by architect Balkrishna Doshi and the Vastu-Shilpa Foundation in 1981. The other plots started to be planned by and built in 1989. The Minimum Cost Housing Group then returned to Aranya to undertake the post-occupancy survey of the whole site and students from the group kept studying the site up to 2018. The material for this file was produced between 1984 and 2012. The project series contains slides, study drawings of the township and a publication on the post-occupancy study by the McGill group.
Project
1984-2002
photographs
PH1990:0107:002
architecture
1955
Detail of the principal entrance of the High Court, Chandigarh, India
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PH1990:0107:002
photographs
1955
architecture
PH1990:0107:005
architecture
1955
Partial view of the southwest façade of Villa Shodhan, Ahmadabad, India
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PH1990:0107:005
architecture
Slide of the "Human Settlements Training Packages" second package entitled "Affordable Urban Design"
ARCH280274
1990
drawings
ARCH280792
ca. 1984-2002
drawings
ca. 1984-2002