The Pritzker Prize, the architectural equivalent of the Nobel Prize, in 2018 was presented to the 90-year-old urban architect Balkrishna Doshi.

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Balkrishna Doshi, a modernist and Corbusian, studied with Le Corbusier in Paris in the 1950s, but returned to India and led projects in Chandigarh and Ahmedabad. His practice includes more than 100 projects at home.

Doshi lives and works in western India and is known for his low-cost residential complexes, social architecture projects, educational and cultural institutions.

The choice of the jury is explained by the focus on the masters of an exclusively local scale: “The consistency of Doshi proves that good architecture must be combined not only with the climate, place, technology and craft, but also with a deep understanding of the context in the broadest sense”.