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Article Author: Top Architecture Prize goes to low-cost housing pioneer from India
Media Source: New York Times (USA)
Date: 7 March 2018
Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi has been awarded the 2018 Pritzker Prize, the architecture’s highest honor. The award will be bestowed on Mr Doshi at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto in May. Mr Doshi also won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1995 for his Aranya Low Cost Housing which accommodates more than 80,000 people in a…
Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi has been awarded the 2018 Pritzker Prize, the architecture’s highest honor. The award will be bestowed on Mr Doshi at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto in May. Mr Doshi also won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1995 for his Aranya Low Cost Housing which accommodates more than 80,000 people in a complex of houses and courtyards with the homes designed with extension and adaptability in mind.