2nd March 1917 – 1st April 2007 Laurie Baker was also known as the ‘Gandhi of architecture’ or ‘Brick master of Kerala’ “I don’t think I’ve ever been inspired by what other architects have doe but more by what ordinary craftsmen have created” – Laurie Baker Baker was a British born Indian architect He came […]
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BALKRISHNA VITHALDAS DOSHI (a.k.a. B.V. DOSHI)
26TH August 1927 “I hesitate calling myself an architect because the more I think I know what architecture is, the less I feel I know about its true calling” – Doshi ‘Paths Uncharted’ – Autobiography Senior designer in Le Corbusier’s project in Ahmedabad and Chandigarh, in 1950 His studio, Vastu Shilpa (Environmental Design), was established […]
WALTER GROPIUS
18th May 1883 – 05th July 1969 “Limitation makes the creative mind inventive” – Gropius Walter Adolph Georg Gropius, was a German architect and founder of Bauhaus School, the German School of Buildings One of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture Founder of a Bauhaus in Weimar (1919) Also, a leading architect in International style […]
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
08th June 1867 – 09th March 1959 “The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own, we have no soul of our own civilization” – FLW FLW was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1000 structures over a creative period of 70 years He believed in designing in […]
ZAHA HADID
31st October 1950 – 31st March 2016 “I don’t think that architecture is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.” – Zaha Hadid Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid was British Iraqi architect, artist and designer, recognised as a major figure in architecture of […]