It accommodates 80,000 people with houses and courtyards linked by a maze of pathways in the city of Indore.Ī celebrity in India where he speaks to packed lectures, 90-year-old Doshi, who studied under Le Corbusier, has worked on other projects – including mixed-income housing for a life insurance corporation in Ahmedabad and the underground Amdavad ni Gufa art gallery – but it is Aranya for which he is best known. The internationally noted champion of housing for India’s poor, Doshi was awarded the Pritzker prize last week, in large part for the Aranya low-cost housing project. The winner of architecture’s “Nobel prize”, Balkrishna Doshi, has called on his profession to rethink the way it approaches building for the most impoverished communities. The champion of housing for the poor is urging greater compassion The celebrated architect has been selected for awarding the Royal Gold Medal 2022 (England) for his work – Read here – Balkrishna Doshi honoured with the Royal Gold Medal 2022, the world’s highest honour for architecture
By Peter Beaumont / The Guardian, originally published in Mar.
