26TH August 1927 – 24TH January 2023 “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 […]
EDUCATION
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 […]
LE CORBUSIER
6th October 1887 – 27th August 1965 “A house is a machine for living in” – Le Corbusier Le Corbusier (also known as Charles Edouard Jeanneret) was a Swiss French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as Modern Architecture A founding member of the Congres […]
CHARLES CORREA
1ST September 1930 – 16TH June 2015 “Certainly, architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many – layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and structure, material and texture, lie the deepest and most compulsive layers of all.” – Charles Correa Charles Mark Correa was an […]