Royal Gold Medal awarded to architect Balkrishna Doshi

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Category : Awards Published on: May 13 2022

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Acclaimed architect Balkrishna Doshi has been conferred with the prestigious Royal Gold Medal 2022, one of the world’s highest honours for architecture, by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
Doshi, 94, is the only one from India and to have been awarded both the Royal Gold Medal and the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture.
He is credited with designing some of the most iconic structures in Ahmedabad.
He worked with Louis Kahn as an associate to build the Indian institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad and they continued to collaborate for over a decade.

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Royal Gold Medal awarded to architect Balkrishna Doshi