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 […]
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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 […]