Born in Pune, trained in Bombay, four years in Le Corbusier’s Paris atelier from 1951, then sent home to supervise the Ahmedabad projects — and he stayed, building for sixty years in a country he thought European modernism had never really looked at. Doshi founded Vastu-Shilpa in 1955 and the school that became CEPT in 1962, and worked out an architecture of shaded outdoor rooms: the covered street, the terraced courtyard, the vault half-buried against the heat. Aranya low-cost housing at Indore, IIM Bangalore, Sangath, Amdavad ni Gufa. He was the first Indian architect to win the Pritzker Prize, in 2018, at ninety, and said of the honour that it reminded him of his teacher. His work is unfailingly generous about shade, water and how people actually gather.
