About indian architecture

Charles Correa

Charles Mark Correa was born on 1 September 1930, in Secunderabad,.^[2][3]

Correa began his higher studies at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai at the University of Bombay (now Mumbai), and he went on to study at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (1949–53) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1953–55). In 1958 he established his own Mumbai-based professional practice.^[4]

Charles Correa is currently working on several projects worthy of note. Of particular significance is the new Ismaili Centre in Toronto, Canada that is to be located in the midst of formal gardens and surrounded by a large park designed by landscape architect Vladimir Djurovic. It will share the site with the Fumihiko Maki designed Aga Khan Museum.^[10]

A project that has recently been completed is The Champalimaud Foundation Centre in Lisbon which was inaugurated on 5 October 2010 by the Portuguese President, Cavaco Silva.^[11][12]

Awards [edit]

·                     RIBA Royal Gold Medal – 1984.^[13]

·                     Padma Vibhushan (2006) and Padma Shri (1972).^[14]

·                     Praemium Imperiale (1994)

·                     7th Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly (1998)^[6]

·                     Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2005)^[15]

·                     His acclaimed design for McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT was dedicated recently

B. V. Doshi:- B. V. Doshi was born in Pune, India.^[3] He studied at the J. J. School of Architecture, Mumbai.

After having worked for four years between 1951-54 with Le Corbusier in Paris, B. V. Doshi returned to Ahmedabad to supervise Le Corbusier's projects. His studio, Vastu-Shilpa (environmental design), was established in 1955. Doshi worked closely with Louis Kahnand Anant Raje, when Kahn designed the campus of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. In 1958 he was a fellow at theGraham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He then started the School of Architecture (S.A) in 1962.

Doshi is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and has been on the selection committee for the Pritzker Prize, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. He is also a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Architects.

Apart from his international fame as an architect, Dr. Doshi is equally known as an educator and institution builder. He has been the first founder Director of the School of Architecture, Ahmedabad (1962–72), first founder Director of the School of Planning (1972–79), first founder Dean of the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (1972–81), founder member of the Visual Arts Centre, Ahmedabad and first founder Director of the Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad. Dr. Doshi has been instrumental in establishing the nationally and internationally known research institute Vastu-Shilpa Foundation for Studies and Research in Environmental Design. The institute has done pioneering work in low cost housing and city planning.

As an academician, Dr. Doshi has been visiting the USA and Europe since 1958 and has held important chairs in American Universities.

He did a cameo role in Mani Ratnam's O Kadhal Kanmani, playing himself.

Awards [edit]

In recognition of his distinguished contribution as a professional and as an academician, Dr. Doshi has received several international and national awards and honours.

·                     Padma Shri, Government of India

·                     Honorary doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.

·                     France's highest honour for arts the 'Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters', 2011.^[4]

Popular Culture [edit]

In 2008, 100 hands director Prjmit Ramachandran released a documentary interviewing Doshi.

·                     1979-80 Sangath, BV Doshi's office, Ahmedabad

·                     1972 Centre for Environment and Planning Technology (CEPT), Ahmedabad

·                     1962-74 Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

·                     1989 National Institute of Fashion Technology,^[5] Delhi

·                     1990 Amdavad ni Gufa, Ahmedabad

·                     Aranya Low Cost Housing, Indore

·                     IFFCO township, Kalol

Kuldip Singh :-

 Kuldip Singh (born 1 January 1932) is an Indian attorney and former member of the Supreme Court of India. Following his retirement from the court, he headed the 2002-2008 National Delimitation Commission that redistricted all of India after the 2001 census.^[1]

Singh received his education from Col. Brown Cambridge School, followed by his first law degree from Punjab University in 1955 and a second one from the University of London in 1958. He served as a barrister-at-law at Lincoln's Inn in London before returning to India in 1959.^[2]

Singh was appointed to the Supreme Court on 14 December 1988 and retired on 21 December 1996.^[2]

Kanvinde:-

Kanvinde was born in 1916 in a small village on the Konkan coast. Raised in a joint family in the village. Kanvinde had the calling of a painter and did enroll in an art school but the family decided that architecture would be a better profession for him. He entered the Architecture Department at Sir J.J. School of Art in 1935 then headed by Claude Batley, who was also the premier architect of the country. He passed out in 1941. 1943, he joined the newly formed Council for Scientific and Industrial Research as architect. Achyut Kanvinde attended Harvard Graduate school of Design in 1945.  In ‘47 appointed as the Chief Architect of CSIR.  Formed Kanvinde and Rai in 1955.