B.V. Doshi- a Documentry
By: Ramachandran, Premjit
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Publisher: Mumbai The Indian Institute of Architects 2023Edition: Vol.88(1), Jan.Description: 43-52p.Subject(s): ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)Online resources: Click here
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Journal of the Indian institute of architects :(JIIA)Summary: B.V. Doshi (BVD): In the School of Architecture I never took
the salary that I got, Rs800, I never took it home, for all those
twenty years, when I was at the beginning of my career. It’s
a temple, how can you do it? How can you take money from
the temple?
Charles Correa, Architect: I think it’s wonderful what Doshi
has achieved. That’s the best school in India and it started
from scratch and it has its educational component and
then I think there were people like Bernard Cohn and Rasu
Wakil and many others who made huge contributions, but
the essential contribution I think was the bridge between
Doshi and Kasturbhai Lalbhai and people don’t realize how
important that is. Without that, that school wouldn’t have
happened, without Kasturbhai’s backing. I mean you have to
be a bit of an empire builder and have somebody backing you
to do something as marvelous as CEPT. So a lot of the credit
absolutely goes to Doshi because regardless of what else
happened it’s he who was the basic driver of that project.
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B.V. Doshi (BVD): In the School of Architecture I never took
the salary that I got, Rs800, I never took it home, for all those
twenty years, when I was at the beginning of my career. It’s
a temple, how can you do it? How can you take money from
the temple?
Charles Correa, Architect: I think it’s wonderful what Doshi
has achieved. That’s the best school in India and it started
from scratch and it has its educational component and
then I think there were people like Bernard Cohn and Rasu
Wakil and many others who made huge contributions, but
the essential contribution I think was the bridge between
Doshi and Kasturbhai Lalbhai and people don’t realize how
important that is. Without that, that school wouldn’t have
happened, without Kasturbhai’s backing. I mean you have to
be a bit of an empire builder and have somebody backing you
to do something as marvelous as CEPT. So a lot of the credit
absolutely goes to Doshi because regardless of what else
happened it’s he who was the basic driver of that project.
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