With so many golden feathers already to his crown, architect Balkrishna Doshi has been posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan-the second highest honor in the country, on the eve of India’s 74th Republic Day. While the architecture and design community, from around the world, still mourns and recollects his life and works, the conferring of Padma Vibhushan (2023) adds to the luminous list that has RIBA Gold Medal (in 2022), India’s only Pritzker Prize (2018), and the Padma Bhushan (2020).
Students and the architecture fraternity celebrate the modernist architect, who recorded the beauty around and wove it into the timeless tapestries that his architecture is! Professor Doshi, as he is fondly known, furthered the modernist way of design ideology in the Indian subcontinent and created his own identity with roots in sustainability and the branching out ideologies like low-cost and accessible design, or the design of institutional and educational premises that weave the nation’s future!
The humility that he is revered for, is seen directly translated into the architecture he created and now has rightfully been awarded for it!
