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The Indian architect and planner Balkrishna V. Doshi is one of the most accomplished and influential personalities of his country; but beyond that, his teaching philosophy and cultural theories have placed him in a prominent position on the international scene. From his early contacts and his long collaboration with Le Corbusier, when the latter was building in India, Doshi learned “to observe and react to climate, to tradition, to function, to structure, to economy and to the landscape around me.” And from Louis I. Kahn and his architectural masterpieces in India he learned about art and architecture as the achievement of universal harmony and the articulation of spaces as a meaningful social order. But Doshi realized that these great and serene lessons did not make his architecture genuine contemporary Indian architecture.

“… I have in the last two decades gradually discovered that the buildings that I have designed somehow have a foreign look.” Doshi’s reasoning for this is: “I was educated outside of India, learning from great masters, but I still was educated outside of myself.”

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