For Pritzker Prize Winner Balkrishna Doshi, Architecture 'Is Almost Like Clothing'
Doshi is renowned in his field for work that reconciles the flow of space inside traditional Indian temples with modernist design principles.
Architect Balkrishna Doshi is renowned in his field for work that reconciles the flow of space inside traditional Indian temples with the design principles of modernists Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier, who he calls his “gurus.”
Last week, at the age of 90, Doshi became the first Indian to win architecture’s highest honor, the Pritzker Prize.
Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Doshi about his work, his life and his inspiration.
Interview Highlights
On his style of architecture
“I think the kind of architecture that
