Creation of Architecture: An Integral Way

Balkrishna Doshi, Energy and sustainability, expanding design practices, No Density, PLANE—SITE, Talk

Alternative Domesticity, Architect’s role, Architecture, Atmosphere mediator, Cultural agitator, Cultural identity, Design thinking, Housing, India, Social strategies, Sustainability, talk, User’s experience

Over six decades, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Balkrishna Doshi has created a body of work lauded for its poetics, purpose, and deep appreciation of material context. From affordable social housing to public space, his designs are influenced as much by India’s vernacular as they are by his early tutelage under Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn — mentors he describes as his guru and yogi, respectively.