The winner of the 'Nobel Prize of Architecture' was just named - here are his stunning buildings
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Mar 8, 2018, 00:35 IST
Doshi lives and works in Ahmedabad, India. In the early 1980s, he designed his own studio, a cylindrical complex called Sangath:
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The natural environment inspired the building's rolling mounds, vaults, green terraces, and water channels.
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Doshi's practice has completed more than 100 projects in Indian cities.
One notable project is the Aranya Low-Cost Housing development in Indore.
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The coral-colored complex holds approximately 80,000 people across 6,500 residences. It was built in response to the region's housing shortage in the early 1980s.
Doshi also designed home, characterized by sharp lines, as well. Dubbed Kamala House, the minimalist building was completed in Ahmedabad in 1959.
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"I could not afford air conditioning in those days, therefore, I oriented the structure to make most of the natural South Westerly winds," he said in a recent interview.
In the same city, Doshi created this partially-underground art gallery, called Amdavad Ni Gufa, in 1995.
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The cave-like space hosts special painting exhibitions and projects films.
In 1973, Doshi designed this mixed-income housing for a life insurance corporation in Ahmedaba.
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The pyramidal structure features three floors connected by a single staircase.
In southern India, the Indian Institute of Management has maze-like clusters of classrooms that wind around the campus.
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The Pritzker jury called the 90-year-old's work "poetic and functional."
"My work is the story of my life, continuously evolving, changing and searching …searching to take away the role of architecture and look only at life," Doshi said in a statement.