Ar. Achyut Parkash Kanvinde was an influential Indian architect born in 1916 in Maharashtra. He studied architecture in Mumbai and urban design at Harvard. Kanvinde established a successful practice in Delhi and is renowned for his modern campus designs, including the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. The IIT Kanpur campus featured decentralized planning, modular designs, and landscaping to create an integrated academic space. Kanvinde believed architecture should be informed by local climate, materials, and social patterns. He received several national honors and awards for his contributions to Indian architecture.

1. Ar.ACHYUT PARKASH KANVINDE
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Ar. Amandeep kaur
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Manpreet Kaur
THEORY OF DESIGN

2. Ar.ACHYUT P. KANVINDE
• He was born at ACHARA, SINDHUDURG
district, MAHARASHTRA in 1916.
• His father was a painter and he spent his
childhood in a rural environment.
• KANVINDE GRADUATED IN
ARCHITECTURE FROM J.J. SCHOOL OF
ART, MUMBAI in 1942.
• He completed his masters from HARWARD
SCHOOL OF DESIGN, USA in 1947.
• He was a student of WALTER GROPIUS.
• In 1955 he established his own practice in
delhi along with SHAUKAT RAI.

3. • In 1970 MORAD CHOWDHARY joined the
firm with firm acquiring its present name_
KANVINDE RAI & CHOWDHARY
ASSOCIATES.
• He shared a unique relationship with his
client, continuing to enjoy their patronage
on several commissions.
• Shri Kanvinde was a versatile personality,
a critic, a writer and a visiting professor in
reputed universities in India as well as
abroad.
• He passed away on 28th
December 2002
which was a great loss to Indian
architecture.

4. LIST OF AWARDS
• Recipient of PADMASHRI- National honour
from Govt. of India in 1975.
• Recipient of gold medal of the Indian
institute of architect in 1985.
• Recipient of national award of institution of
engineers for architectural engg. In 1990.
• Got great master national award by
J.K.Industries Ltd in 1993.
• Outstanding Konkani awards
[POSTHUMOUS] IN 2003.
• TMA PAI Foundation Manipal in 2003.

5. MAJOR PROJECTS
• Ahmedabad Textile Industry’s research
associates 1953.
• Darpana Dance academy, Ahmedabad
1963.
• Residence of A.P.Kanvinde 1967.
• Campus building for national dairy
development board,Anand, 1970.
• Mahatma Phule agricultural university,
Rahuri, 1978.
• Nehru science center, Mumbai, 1980
• Sher-I-Kashmir institute of medical
sciences, Sri-Nagar 1987.

6. • Legislative assembly & high court,
Sri nagar , 1989.
• National science centre, New Delhi,
1991.
• Metro dairy, Kolkata, 1996.
• Temple & vedic institute for Iskon,
Delhi, 1998.
• Banas II Dairy, Palanpur, 2000.
• Iskon Temple, varanasi on going
project.

7. PHILOSOPHY
• Acc. To him architecture is defined as “SATYAM
SHIVAM SUNDARAM”. Meaning that which is
beautiful embodies truth with pure & clean
qualities.
• Kanvinde realized that no meaningful architecture
could ever be built without understanding the
climate & geography of the region as well as the
pattern of society.
• Acc. To him architecture is not a museum of
materials.
• He used bricks, stones, concrete & aggregate
plaster with equal finesse and was always on the
look out for different materials where demanded
by the climatic context.
• He carried out consistently good buildings on
small scale budgets all around the country.

8. • His work carried out the spirit of modern
master which had a scientific , rational &
technological base.
• His belief in application of modern
technologies made him receptive to new
ideas & concepts, in search for a
democratic expression to Indian
architecture.
• His work was straight forward norms of
functional planning, invariable attempt to
achieve a form-oriented expression.
• All his life, he was constantly exploring
new ways of re-inviting the vocabulary of
architecture.

9. ACHIEVEMENTS
• He was one of the first practices that then
fledged A+D magazine profiled in 1985
[A+D – Volume – 1]
• He was one of the pioneers of the modern
moment in architecture.
• He is the author of a book called CAMPUS
DESIGN IN INDIA.
• For many years Kanvinde became a
spoke’s person of architectural profession.

10. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
AT KANPUR
• It is located at KANPUR.
• The I.I.T KANPUR is one of such premier
institutions, established by the union govt.
to impart high quality technological
training in India located on the outskirts of
Kanpur city.
• It is the first example of comprehensive
modern campus built in the country.
• The most significant aspect of the campus
is its planning by discipline, discarding the
conventional idea of separating activities
by departmental division.

11. I.T.T. KANPUR

12. • The plan is decentralized activities, are
connected by the walkway system this allows
the students to walk at 2 levels of the building
that are designed to receive a 2 level circulation.
• Plan was based on repetitive modules of certain
dimension.
• There is a unique layering of corridors.
ACADEMIC COMPLEX
• The main academic complex is organized in a
quadrangle on an area of 20 hectares.
• It comprises of a library, a lecture theatre block,
a faculty

13. VIEW OF INSTITUTE

15. • Building, a computer center besides the
laboratories, workshops and areas for
cultural and recreational facilities.
• The library, lecture theatre block and
laboratories are two or three stories high.
• The faculty building is six storeyed and is
largest structure in the academic core and
entire campus is visible from the roof.
• Staircase, elevators & fire escape, spiral
stairs are provided for vertical circulation.

16. • All the building in academic area are
easily distinguishable through form
as well as structural.
LECTURE THEATRE
• This block is a double storeyed
structure with the ground floor being
stilted.
• It is liked to the library & laboratories
by corridors.
• The structure is reinforced concrete
frame and brick exposed walls the
windows are sunken to protect from
sun and rain.

18. • The interior is equipped more like an
auditorium than a classroom.
• The walls & ceiling are acoustically treated
with wall finishes & false ceilings.
• The flooring inside the lecture theatre is
terrazzo and in the corridors is kotah
stone highly polished.
LABORATORIES
• The laboratory building are distributed all
along the academic areas and are named
as eastern labs, western labs, northern
labs and the core labs.

22. • The design is based on modules.
• The laboratories are located on both sides
of a central corridor to make design more
than compact.
• The laboratory blocks are connected with
faculty building and the library except the
northern & southern laboratories by
means of corridors and by bridges.
WORKSHOPS
• The workshop block is situated on the
western periphery on the academic
complex.
• Fabrication work for various departments
& institute

23. Facilities are also carried out.
• The roof structure is saw tooth truss which
economical with the added advantage of
reduction in the volume of space enclosed.
CIRCULATION
• In order to allow for expansion, growth &
flexibility within the complex, activities
and services have been segregated and
interconnected by a linear movement
along 2 level corridors.
• Vehicular movement for both goods &
people is segregated

24. • From pedestrian movement maintaining
the integrity of the core as a pedestrian
island.
• Parking has been provided which restrict
cross movement of traffic within the
academic complex.
LANDSCAPING
• The I.I.T. campus is planned and
landscaped for environmental freedom.
• The core of the complex is stilted area of
lecture halls which is surrounded by
landscaping, water body & sculptures.
• The sunken garden is created for cultural
activities.

25. LIBRARY
• The library building
is large and most
impressive building
in the academic
core.
• It is centrally
located and has
main entry at
higher than the
ground level.
• At ground level a
sunken garden is
provided below

26. the central cutout.
• The structure is based on grid module &
has central large skylight.
• The windows are sunk deep into the walls
to provide glare free light.
• It is connected to lecture halls, labs by
corridors.
BUILDING FORM
• Building is based upon modular concept,
the buildings are harmonious in character,
have open forms with linking corridors &
spaces penetrating.

27. • Structural system consists of
reinforced concrete frames and slabs
with brick curtain wall.
• The external surfaces of concrete of
brick are left exposed to enhance the
aesthetic appeal.
• Skylights are important feature in
the library building and the computer
centre to provide indirect light in the
interior spaces.