He has been a towering figure in architecture in his country’s architecture for nearly 70 years, but Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi feels the nation which he has done so much to help build has lost sight of its passion for “graceful living”.
Mr Doshi became the first Indian to win architecture’s highest accolade, the Pritzker Prize, last week. Speaking to The Telegraph, he said: “We used to think of a house as our temple, now they are thought of as boxes."
He added: "There used to be this subtle nuance of graceful living, which has certainly been lost to some extent. There used to be reverence not just for our homes but for our land, now it is something left over as an afterthought.”
Born in Pune…
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