Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, India’s iconic architect, educator, and visionary, went gently into the world beyond at his home on January 24, 2023.
He was country’s first recipient of the illustrious Pritzker Architecture Prize (2018) and the second, after Charles Correa, to earn RIBA’s Royal Gold Medal, which he did in 2022. When I called him up to congratulate on the honor, he was his usual self-effacing, bantering self. I quipped jokingly, “Well, both the presenter [the late Queen Elizabeth] and the recipient will make a fine pair of nonagenarians!” He laughed heartily, “I will be the younger one!”
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