Anant Raje is an Indian architect born in 1929 in Bombay. He graduated in architecture in 1954 and gained professional experience working with B.V. Doshi before working in Louis Kahn's office from 1964-1968. There, he assisted with the design of the Indian Institute of Management campus in Ahmedabad. Raje went on to design several projects in India including government, educational, and market buildings, drawing inspiration from local culture and climate. His works emphasize simple forms, natural light, and integration with the environment.

1. • Born :September 1929 in Bombay.
• 1954:Graduated in Architecture, Sir J.J. School of Fine Arts, Bombay,
• 1957-1960 :Professional practice with Mr. B.V. Doshi, Architect in Ahmedabad
working on Housing for the Textile Industry workers and Housing for Low-Income
group, Gujarat University Science Laboratories and Textile Pavilion for Indian
Industrial Exposition in New Delhi.
• 1961-1964 :Professional work in Ahmedabad.
• 1964-1968 :In the office of Prof. Louis I. Kahn in Philadelphia.
• 1969- 1971 :Working on construction of the Indian Institute of Business
Management Building complex with Louis . Kahn, as his representative to develop
design details and organize site office unit and construction work in Ahmedabad
• He is Honorary Director of the School of Architecture, Ahmedabad.
ANANT DAMODAR RAJE

2. Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Work of Anant Raje With Louis Kahn

3. Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
• Established:1961
• Type: Education and
Research Institution
• Location : Ahmedabad,
Gujarat, India
• Campus : Urban, 100 acres
(0.40 km²)

4. • The campus of IIMA is dominated
by the baked brick style favored by
its chief architect, the famous
Louis Kahn from Philadelphia.
• All the structures are designed to
be part of a whole and create a
red-brick mini-cityscape that
attracts many architecture
students.
• Other architects who collaborated
on the campus include the
renowned B. V. Doshi and Anant
Raje.
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

5. • Designed by Louis Kahn,campus of the
Institute has it all:
• a blend of austerity and majesty;
• spaces for casual interaction;
• frequently changing perspectives;
• and a balance between modernity and
tradition that captures the spirit of
contemporary India.
• It stimulates the imagination and
creativity of the students, who are
clearly the best in the country, coming
as they do after one of the most
rigorous selection process."
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

6. • Kahn's architecture is notable for
its simple, platonic forms and
compositions.
• Kahn design of buildings,
characterized by powerful,
massive forms, made him one of
the most discussed architects to
emerge after World War II.
• Through the use of brick and
poured-in place concrete masonry,
he developed a contemporary and
monumental architecture that
maintained sympathy for the site.

7. ANANT DAMODAR RAJE
Designed a number of private and public projects in many
Indian cities including
• Bhopal Development Authority Headquarters
• M.A.F.C.O. Wholesale Market built in 1975.
• Galbabhai Training Institute
• Institute for Forest Management

8. Bhopal Development Authority Headquarters
• LOCATION :Bhopal, India
• Client: Bhopal Development Authority
• Date:1988
• Building Type: Government
• Building Usage: Type: Government office

9. BHOPAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY HEADQUARTERS
Even though the entire plot is covered by the building to get the maximum land
utilization, it has enough open space for terraces built and integrated in the
composition of the layout.

10. SECTIONS

11. PLANS
TERRACES

12. Besides the ground level designed for the movement of vehicles, the elevated
terrace levels keep the pedestrian movement isolated from the vehicular traffic.

13. Bhopal Development Authority Headquarters

14. All openings are integrated with the structure in such a way that they create a
pocket of shadow within which the windows fall offering a complete freedom to the
design and form of the windows.

15. •To Raje, , light does not merely have the significance of a
functional signal
• He says-my work, is like taking light in the form that is
brought to us, in the sense of the plan and the choice of
material , where you have these gradations of light which
become evocative of certain kinds of uses.
• When I'm talking about dark spaces, I don't mean to say
absolutely black or anything like that, because no-thing is
really black; even night is not really black if you look up into
the sky, there is a little luminous glow.

16. The building works with the climate shading the internal spaces from
the hot summer sun.
RECESSES IN THE WALL
BALCONIES PROVIDED

17. Bhopal
Development
Authority
Headquarters

18. M.A.F.C.O. WHOLESALE MARKET IN MUMBAI

19. PLAN •Its an outward looking informal structure

20. PLAN AND
SECTION OF
TRADING CELLS

21. • The project layout limits transit vehicular
movement and enhances pedestrian
circulation within the commercial complex.
• Covered walkways and pedestrian streets
are provided.
• The different facilities are arranged around
three courts, with the wholesale market at
the center and the trading cells, banks and
post office buildings on the periphery.

22. GALBABHAI TRAINING INSTITUTE
PALANPUR, INDIA

25. • The buildings are based on the repetition
of 4.5 meter wide structural bays roofed
with a barrel vault concrete shell.
• This standardization allowed for a rapid
and economical construction process.
• The project also features an auction hall
with raised platform for loading and
unloading produce.

26. PLAN

27. SECTIONS

28. • The series of loggias making up the
dormitories do not open on the courtyard
placed in their center in order to achieve
maximum privacy
• The compound is enclosed by stone walls,
and the buildings' openings are spanned
by concrete lintels and are deeply
recessed to provide additional shade.

29. The exposed stone
facades and arched
lintels used
throughout convey a
visual unity to the
overall design.

31. • The complex, built in the midst of wheat fields,
consists of two distinct clusters respectively
housing the school and residential units.
• The former group of structures, accessed by a
courtyard, is designed as a house, with several
courts and rooms where people can gather, and
a verandah used as a dining space.
• Indoor and outdoor areas are clearly defined so
as to reflect the villagers' perception of space
and seclusion.

32. INSTITUTE OF FOREST
MANAGEMENT, BHOPAL

33. Location: Bhopal,
India
Architect/Planner:
Anant Damodar Raje
Client: Indian
Institute of Forest
Management
Date:1984Century20
th
Decade:1980sBuildin
g
Type: educational
Building
Usage: training
center
Project :ID1429

34. PLAN

35. • The project restates
time tested premises of
the court and garden,
fundamental to most
Islamic architecture in
India. The land stradles
two hills with outcrops
of slate. The natural
vegetation is wild grass,
which has been allowed
to grow, augmented by
rows and clumps of
trees. The rooms, arcade
and porch, are made
from a simple vocabulary
of trabeated and
arcuated construction,
with the walls clad with
stone screed in shades
of green and yellow grey
that establishes a close
rapport with the site.

36. • Demonstrating rigours and
containing faiths so
necessary, and yet elusive in
practice. The IIFM building
has become a touchstone for
the professional, especially
the young. Humanism &
Urbanism: Using primarily
Enlightenment design
methods, and developing a
particular variant of
technique or the mode of
knowing best represented by
the school of Louis Kahn,
Anant Raje constructs an
ideogrammatic
representation of
architecture

37. Main
plaza
Main
approach

38. Main façade

39. View to side façade

40. Façade loggias

41. Stone
staircase
Detail of stone
load-bearing
façade

42. • The chaotic metropolis of Bombay deeply
influences Raje and he infact proclaims himself
an "urban man" contrary to Doshi who although
from the same school, looks to village life.

43. • Anant raje’s Stress is placed on integration of
culture and spiritual wellbeing and efforts as
designer are aimed at process of integration of
man, the space around him and the elements
making up the space.