The document discusses the philosophies and works of an architect who stressed integrating culture and spirituality. His designs aimed for simplicity, honesty, and integration of people with their surrounding spaces and building elements. His works exhibited purposeful expression and achieved a sense of order, repose, and transcendence through thoughtful use of materials, light, textures, and attention to issues like light and ventilation. He received several awards over his career for his contributions to architecture in India.

1. • He always stressed on integration of culture and spiritual well being
• His works always aimed at simplicity and honesty
• His efforts ad designer aimed at process of integration of man, the
space around him and the elements making up the space.
• His works exhibit integrity between purpose and expression, building
and landscape, part and whole, and the ultimate quality of all good
architects through time – a sense of repose
• His works had an excellent understanding of the elements of building,
and the law of construction, that it gave the sense of ordering
presence
• yet it is an order to enrich by the patina of materials he chooses and
sensitivity of light
• His works had indeed a softness and quality of transcendence.
• Use of bold materials and very clean geometric shapes and forms
• Blend of exteriors to the interiors
• An experience using the play of textures on the external facades
• Attended to issues of light and ventilation
PHILOSOPHIES :-

2. • 1987: Distinguished professor’s Award from the centre for
environmental Planning and Technology(CEPT)
• 1990: ARCHITECTURE OF THE YEAR AWARD BY JJ CEMENT OF
IIFM
• 1992: WON TWO AWARDS FOR IIFM AND OFFICE BUILDING,
BHOPAL BY JIIA
• 1993: AWARDS SABURAO MHATRE GOLD MEDAL FOR HIS
CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROFESSION OF ARCHITECTURE
• 2000: The Master Award for lifetime Contribution in Architecture
from J.K Industries , India.
ACHIEVEMENTS :-
• 1964: JOIN PR. LOUIS I . KAHN IN PHILADELPHIA
• 1974: STARTED HIS INDEPENDENT PRACTICE IN AHEMDABAD
• INVOLVED IN TEACHING FOR NEARLY 25 YRS. IN SCHOOL OF
ARCHITECTURE, AHMEDABAD
PROFESSION :-