B. V. Doshi

Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi  (26 August 1927 – 24 January 2023) was an Indian architect.Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi.  ArchNet 2011. Retrieved 26 July 2011. His best known designs are IIM Bangalore, IIM Udaipur, NIFT Delhi, Amdavad ni Gufa, CEPT University, and the Aranya Low Cost Housing development in Indore. 

In 2018, he became the first Indian architect to receive the Pritzker Prize.Top Architecture Prize Goes to Low-Cost Housing Pioneer From India, By Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 7 March 2018.  He was also awarded the Padma Shri.

Doshi died in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on 24 January 2023, at the age of 95.

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