Kamala House apartment

After having worked with Le Corbusier at Villa Shodhan and Villa Sarabhai, the images of their fluid spaces, the quality of the naturally reflected light, the varied volumes, and their connection to nature crossed my mind. I remembered the words of Le Corbusier: “Follow my spirit, but evolve in your own way, even if it is wrong. There is no better way to learn ”’. —BV Doshi

Kamala House, BV Doshi is the third book in a series dedicated to some of our favorite architects, the houses they build, and the stories behind them.

After traveling to England in the 1940s to complete his architecture studies and work with Le Corbusier in Paris, Doshi returned to newly independent India in the early 1950s. He founded his practice, Sangath, and set out on his own intensely humanistic path, with projects ranging from civic and educational institutions to low-income housing projects, and the house he built for his own family in 1963: Kamala House, named after his wife and home to three generations of family during the last 50 years. In 2018 Doshi won the coveted Pritzker Prize for Architecture.

Original photograph by Quentin de Briey and archival images by the architect. Texts by BV Doshi and Durga Chew-Bose.

Published by Apartamento Publishing SL
First Edition, June 2019
Dimensions: 170 × 240 mm
Pages: 80
Binding: hard cover
ISBN 978-84-09-12089-5

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