architecture and detals

1. Assignment No. :- 03
Title :- Report on contribution of engineers ,planners and architects in post-independence
India.
Roll No :- Exam Seat No :-
Class :- T.E. Civil

2. INDIAN TOWN PLANNER
B. V. DOSHI
Born 26 Aug 1947
Nationality Indian
Profession Architecture
Award Pritzker Architecture Prize
Introduction
Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi born on 26 August 1927 . was an Indian architect.[1] He is an
important figure in Indian architecture and noted for his contributions to the evolution of
architectural discourse in India.[2] Having worked under Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, he was
a pioneer of modernist and brutalist architecture in India.
His noteworthy designs include FLAME University, IIM Bangalore, IIM Udaipur, NIFT
Delhi, Amdavad ni Gufa, CEPT University, and the Aranya Low Cost Housing development
in Indore for which was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.[3]
In 2018, he became the first Indian architect to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize.[4][5] He
was also awarded the Padma Shri, the Padma Bhushan, the Padma Vibhushan,[6] and
the Royal Institute of British Architects' Royal Gold Medal for 2022.
Early life
Doshi was born to a Gujarati Vaishnav Hindu family in Pune.[8] His mother died when he was
10 months old and his father remarried, with his grandfather and aunts helping raise
him.[9][10] At the age of eleven, he was injured in a fire accident, and thereafter walked with a
slight limp.[11] He studied at the Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai between 1947 and 1950.

3. Carrier
Early Projects :
In 1950, he went to Europe. He worked closely with Le Corbusier on the latter's projects in
Paris between 1951 and 1954. In 1954, he returned to India to supervise Corbusier's buildings
in Ahmedabad, which included the Villa Sarabhai, Villa Shodhan, Mill Owners' Association
Building, and Sanskar Kendra. Corbusier is described as having been a major influence on
Doshi's later work.
His studio, Vastu-Shilpa (environmental design), was established in 1955. Doshi worked
closely with Louis Kahn and Anant Raje, when Kahn designed the campus of the Indian
Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. In 1958 he was a fellow at the Graham Foundation for
Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. He then started the School of Architecture (S.A) in 1962.
Bimanagar :
Bimanagar Housing Society, located at Ahmedabad is one of the well-known project by Shri
B.V Doshi. He once said, "One of my most favourite housing projects is the one I designed for
Life Insurance Corporation, at Ahmedabad. Here I knew that the houses would be occupied
by several generations of the same family, that they would identify with it, that there will be
a strong sense of belonging and that their needs will change, and they may modify parts of
it.”
Personal Life and Death
Doshi married Kamala Parikh in 1955. They had three daughters – Tejal, Radhika, and
Maneesha.[16] Tejal Panthaki is a textile designer,[17] Radhika Kathpalia is an architect and
fashion designer,[18] and Maneesha Akkitham is a painter. Doshi died in Ahmedabad, Gujarat
on 24 January 2023, at age 95.

4. Contribution in Civil Engineering
 1962 – Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad[28]
 1966 – Centre for Environment and Planning Technology (CEPT), Ahmedabad[16]
 1967 – Tagore Memorial Hall, Ahmedabad[16]
 1972 – ECIL Township, Hyderabad.[29][30]
 1973 – IFFCO township, Kalol[16]
 1976 – Premabhai Hall, Ahmedabad[16]
 1977 – Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore[16]
 1979 – Sangath, B. V. Doshi's office, Ahmedabad
 1979 – Shakti Bhavan, Administrative Office of M. P. Electricity
Board, Jabalpur[16]
 1979 – Mahatma Gandhi Labour Institute[16]
 1982 – Aranya Low Cost Housing, Indore[4]
 1984 – Vidyadhar Nagar, Jaipur[16]
 1989 – National Institute of Fashion Technology, Delhi[31]
 1990 – Amdavad ni Gufa, Ahmedabad
 1997 – Sawai Gandharva Smarak, Pune[32]
 2002 – Udayan the Condoville, Udita (HIG), Utsav (MIG) Utsarg (LIG) 2500
homes, Kolkata[33]

5. INDIAN ARCHITECTURE
ANUPAMA KUNDOO
Born 24 April 1967
Nationality Indian
Profession Architecture
Award The RIBA Charles Jencks Award
Introduction
Anupama Kundoo studied architecture at the Sir J. J. College of Architecture, University of
Bombay and received her degree in 1989. She was awarded the Vastu Shilpa Foundation
Fellowship in 1996 for her thesis on "Urban Eco-Community: Design and Analysis for
Sustainability". She got her doctoral degree from the Technical University of Berlin in
2008.[1][2]
Kundoo established herself as an architect in Auroville in 1990 where she designed and built
many buildings with "energy and water efficient infrastructure" adaptations.[3] She worked
here from middle of 1990 till 2002.[4]
Kundoo taught at the Technical University, Berlin, and Darmstadt in Hesse during 2005.[5] She
worked as Assistant Professor at Parsons The New School for Design, New York[2] until 2011
then moving to Australia as a senior lecturer in the University of Queensland. In 2014, she
shifted to Europe and began working at the European School of Architecture and Technology
at the Universidad Camilo José Cela in Madrid.[

6. Work
Her approach to building design is based on material research that minimizes environmental
effects.[3] Her basic design approach is to use "waste materials, unskilled labour and local
communities".[7]
One of the notable buildings built for her own residence is titled the "Wall House", built in a
community area of 15 acres (6.1 ha) with a built-in space of 100 square metres (1,100 sq ft)
constructed for one million Rupees in 2000,[3] in Auroville for communal living.[8] This house
is L-Shaped in the plan, has a courtyard in the middle; while it is modern in concept it adopts
traditional "vernacular" use of materials such as compressed earth, concrete, and steel. The
bathroom is set in an open-to-sky design, with smooth merging with the interior and external
spaces and landscaped, giving it both a modern and a regional appearance.[9] A full-sized
replica of her Wall House was made by hand and exhibited at the Venice Biennale of
Architecture.[4] New York Times called it as "a gem among rubble".
Another of her theme is "Liberty" which presents a reading place as a free library, a creation
built with three types of trees fixed in the centre of a square space. The trees' trunks and
branches are made from steel and the leaves made of salvaged books, with the floor made of
concrete. This was exhibited at the Placa de Salvador Segui in Barcelona during June–
September 2014.[10]
Projects
 Wall House, 2000, Auroville, India
 Residence Kranti Kanade, 2003, Pune, India
 Creativity, An Urban Eco-Community, 2003, Auroville, India
 Multipurpose Hall SAWCHU, 2000, Auroville, India
 Town Hall Complex, 2005, Auroville, India
 Mitra Youth Hostel, 2005, Auroville, India
 Voluntariat Homes for Homeless Children, 2008, Pondicherry, India
 Full Fill Homes, 2015, Auroville, India
 Sharana Daycare Facility, 2019, Pondicherry, India

7. INDIAN ENGINEER
M. Visvesvaraya
Born 15 Sep 1861
Nationality Indian
Profession Engineer
Award Bharat Ratna (1955)
Introduction
Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (Moːkśguṇam Viśveśvarayya) KCIE, FASc (15 September
1861 – 12/14 April 1962),[1][2] also referred to by his initials, MV, was an Indian civil engineer,
administrator, and statesman,[3] who served as the 19th Dewan of Mysore from 1912 to
1918.[4]
Visvesvaraya is regarded in India as one of the foremost civil engineers whose birthday, 15
September, is celebrated every year as Engineer's Day in India, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania. He is
also often regarded as "the maker of modern Mysore".[5] According to Prajavani,
a Kannada language newspaper, he is also the most popular figure in the southern
Indian state of Karnataka.
Visvesvaraya worked as a civil engineer for the government of British India and later as Prime
Minister of the Kingdom of Mysore. For his services to British India, he was
appointed CIE[6] and later knighted KCIE.[7] For his services to the Kingdom of Mysore and the
Republic of India, he was awarded the Bharata Ratna by Government of India in 1955.[8]

8. Early Life
M. Visvesvaraya was born on 15 September 1861 at Muddenahalli, Kingdom of Mysore (in
present-day Chikkaballapura district, Karnataka) into a Telugu speaking family of
Mokshagundam Srinivasa Shastry and Venkatalakshmi.[9] His ancestors hail from
Mokshagundam, a village in present-day Andhra Pradesh, and had migrated to the kingdom
years prior to Visvesvaraya's birth.[10][11][12]
Visvesvaraya received his primary education in Bangalore and earned a Bachelor of Science
(BSc) degree from the University of Madras. He later studied at the College of Engineering,
Pune (then College of Science at the University of Bombay) and graduated as an engineer,
receiving Diploma in Civil Engineering (DCE).[13] It was here that he became a member of the
Deccan Club and was its first secretary; he would therefore have been well-acquainted with
the progressives in Pune, including Sir R. G. Bhandarkar, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, and
Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade, who were all members of the club.[14]
Career
Visvesvaraya became an assistant engineer in 1885 at the Public Works
Department, Bombay, in Bombay Presidency.
In 1899, Visvesvaraya was invited to join the Indian Irrigation Commission where he
implemented an intricate system of irrigation in the Deccan Plateau and designed and
patented a system of automatic weir water floodgates that were first installed in 1903
at Khadakvasla Dam near Pune. These gates raised the storage level in the reservoir to the
highest level likely to be attained without causing any damage to the dam. Based on the
success of these gates, the same system was installed at Tigra Dam in Gwalior and later at
the KRS Dam at Mysore, Karnataka. He later became the chief engineer of the Laxmi Talav
Dam near Kolhapur.
In around 1906/1907, the Government of British India sent Visvesvaraya to the British Colony
of Aden (present-day Yemen), to study water supply and drainage systems. The project
prepared by him was successfully implemented in Aden.[15]
After opting for voluntary retirement in 1908, Visvesvaraya took a foreign tour to study
industrialised nations. Then, for a short period, he worked for Nizam Osman Ali Khan. He was
one of the chief engineers of the flood protection system for the city of Hyderabad[16] who
suggested flood relief measures for the city, which was under constant threat by the Musi
river. He achieved celebrity status when he designed a flood protection system for the city.
He was instrumental in developing a system to protect Visakhapatnam port from sea
erosion.[17] This dam created the biggest reservoir in Asia at the time of its construction.[18]
In November 1909, at the invitation of Dewan Sir V.P. Madhava Rao, Visvesvaraya joined as a
chief engineer of Mysore State. He was the Chief Engineer of the KRS Dam at Mysore. He was
also later the chairman of the board of engineers for the Tungabhadra
Dam in Hospet, Karnataka.

9. Projects
 Visvesvaraya, M (1920), Reconstructing India, P. S. King & son, ltd
 Visvesvaraya, M (1936), Planned economy for India, Bangalore: Bangalore
 Visvesvaraya, M (1951), Memories of my working life, Bangalore.
 Visvesvaraya, Mokshagundam (1932), Unemployment in India; its causes and
cure, Bangalore: The Bangalore
 Visvesvaraya, Mokshagundam (1917), Speeches, Bangalore: Govt.