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Achyut Kanvinde: Akar

Paper Type: Galgo Glode Ultra White | Size: 279 mm x 279 mm
All colour; 257 photographs, 8 maps and 276 illustration, 464 pages, Hardback

ISBN-10: 9385285602 | ISBN-13: 978-93-85285-60-8

Architecture, Biography, Cartography, History, Compendium

7000 | 140 | 100

Achyut Kanvinde – Akar is a monograph on the life and works of Achyut Kanvinde, one of the pioneers of Modern Architecture in India with a professional career spanning five decades. Celebrated as the father of campus planning in India, some of Kanvinde’s better-known projects include the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; National Dairy Development Board Campus, Anand; National Institute of Bank Management and National Insurance Academy, Pune; Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai; and National Science Centre and the ISKCON Temple in Delhi. Of the large number of projects designed under the aegis of Kanvinde Rai & Chowdhury, this book deals primarily with 45 selected works that the authors felt best represent the firms oeuvre. A compilation of unrealised projects, research studies, competitions, working drawings, and an exhaustive chronology complete the monograph.

Reviews of Achyut Kanvinde: Akar

1."This book is primarily a compendium of Kanvinde's most important works over these five decades"

-THE INDIAN EXPRESS (August 2017)

2. "The book is a valuable addition to any library, architectural or otherwise. The quality of its production sets a standard in architectural biographies which is unmatched in our country".

-LANDSCAPE (Issue 52, 2017)

3. "Biographies such as this one are special moments where the book has to engage with much broader questions than the documentation of a life in all its multifarious forms and experiences".

-DOMUS (October 2017)

Sanjay Kanvinde

Editor

Sanjay Kanvinde, an Architect and Urban Designer by training, is presently a partner with Kanvinde Rai & Chowdhury. He has an experience of over 40 years in the field of architecture and urban design and has been involved in the design of various educational institutions in India. He has been actively involved in academics as visiting faculty in the Urban Design Department, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, since 1980; as well as a visiting critic and a member of board of studies at several schools of architecture.

Tanuja

Editor

A graduate of the University of Bangalore, Tanuja has been mentored by the Modern Masters of the country – Padalkar, Stein, Morad Chowdhury, and Kanvinde. With about 35 years of work experience and as a partner at Kanvinde Rai & Chowdhury since 2000, she has been involved in the design of a number of institutions and dairy complexes with an underlying concern towards creating a sustainable built environment.

Balkrishna V. Doshi

Foreword

Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi is an Indian architect who is considered to be an important figure of Indian architecture and noted for his contributions to the evolution of architectural discourse in India. Having worked under Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, he is a pioneer of modernist and brutalist architecture in India. In 2018, he became the first Indian architect to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, which is considered one of the most prestigious prizes in architecture.He has also been awarded the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan.