B.V. Doshi, one of modern Indian architecture?s most celebrated practitioners, was born in Pune, India in 1927. Nearly 90 years later, the Pritzker Prize jury chose Doshi as the 2018 Laureate. Get to know about Doshi?s history?including his close relationship to the legendary Le Corbusier?in this list of interesting facts.

Le Corbusier and Balkrishna Doshi. Photo courtesy of Balkrishna Doshi.

B.V. Doshi, one of modern Indian architecture?s most celebrated practitioners, was born in Pune, India in 1927. Nearly 90 years later, the Pritzker Prize jury chose Doshi as the 2018 Laureate. Get to know about Doshi?s history?including his close relationship to the legendary Le Corbusier?in this list of interesting facts.

Sheth Hutheesinh Temple by Kalyan Shah used under CC BY-SA 3.0
1) Doshi?s office, Vastu Shilpa, created a list of ?must-see? architecture sites in the city of Ahmedabad so that visitors to the office can see the city and understand the context in which Doshi creates his buildings.2) From 1951 to 1955, B.V. Doshi worked directly for Le Corbusier as an architectural apprentice in his Paris atelier. To this day, at the entrance of his cabin, Doshi keeps a portrait of the Swiss architect next to representations of Goddess Durga and Lord Ganesha.

Balkrishna Doshi. Courtesy of VSF

3) Le Corbusier spoke to Doshi in broken English. But the Indian architect later recalled, ?When you don?t know the language, the conversation becomes ...