Balkrishna Doshi

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Balkrishna Doshi is an Indian architect who is known for his contribution to the evolution of architecture in India.When he was eight years old, he used to visit his grandfathers furniture workshop from where he started gaining interest in buildings and sculptors.At the age of 11, he tried to imitate a fire trick and burnt his leg. He did not get the amputation done and that left him with a slight limp on his leg.In an interview, he revealed that he used to study in open spaces rather than a closed classroom.His art teacher Venekatesh Patil guided him to study architecture at Bombay. He used to feel left out because all the students in his college spoke English, and he could not communicate with them easily.In 1951, his friend Hari Kanheres invited him to visit London and appear for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) exam. When he was writing the exam in England, a member of Le Corbusiers team, tells Doshi that they would design the city of Chandigarh. He asks them if he could join the team and soon he moved to Paris to work with Le Corbusier. When he returned to India, he worked on the designs of the High Court and Governors Palace in Chandigarh and, later, the Mill Owners Association building and Shodhan House in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. He also supervised the designs of Villa Sarabhai, Villa Shodhan, Mill Owners Association Building, and Sanskar Kendra. Balkrishna Doshi With Le Corbusier.In 1955, he met his wife Kamala Parikh, but due to religious differences, their families accepted their marriage late.In 1956, Doshi started his own office VastuShilpa, which was now renamed as Vastushilpa Consultants. Doshi in his office VastuShilpa.In 1957, he received the $10,000 Graham Foundations International Fellowship under which he met big architects, designers such as Mies van der Rohe, Josep Llus Sert, Charles and Ray Eames, Friedrich Kiesler.In 1959, he participated in the international competition for the Toronto City Hall in Toronto, Canada, and he teamed up with Yoshikatsu Tsuboi. According to him, he got to understand the relationship between architecture and structural systems.