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#Repost @vitradesignmuseum This weekend is your last chance to see our exhibition “Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People” – on display until Sunday, 8 September. Although only the shrine was built, the Ompuri temple complex in Matar, India, was originally designed by Balkrishna Doshi in 1998 as a larger dependency of Pondicherry’s Shri Aurobindo Ashram. The shrine was designed with three zones of movement in mind – a meandering path, a gradual rise in elevation, and the light tracking around the inside of the conical structure. The latter falls through an oculus at the apex to illuminate the sacred marble platform decked with flowers. The plan’s eyelike shape is suggestive of the building’s ephemeral power and encourages visitors to open their own “third eye”. Find out more about the exhibition on our website – link in bio. #VDMDoshi #VitraDesignMuseum #balkrishnadoshi #doshi #bvdoshi @sangath_vsc_vsf @khushnu.hoof @wuestenrotstiftung #architecture #ompuri #matar #modernarchitecture #indianmodernism #modernism #architectureexhibition #archidaily #archigram #archilovers #architecturelovers #architecturehistory #architecturephotography #architecturalphotography #architecture_hunter #architectural #pritzkerprize #museum #exhibition #weilamrhein #basel #lovebasel Photos (1-3): @panjwani.vinay ; photo (4) & coloured sketch of the interior (5): © Vastushilpa Foundation, Ahmedabad https://www.instagram.com/p/B2EqKW6JwrT/?igshid=az9v0f5a5tkf

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We ❤️ 'Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People,' on view at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago!⁠⠀ Images here are from the book of the same name — the most comprehensive monograph ever published on Doshi, winner of the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Exquisitely designed, this 400-page clothbound hardcover from @vitradesignmuseum features 450 color and b&w images printed on two different uncoated papers. Newly commissioned photo essays are mixed in with copious, well-edited archival materials, while an assortment of scholarly essays and an interview of the architect by Hans Ulrich Obrist are framed by an illustrated biography and writings by Doshi himself.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Please order from your local independent #bookstorehero — many have reopened or offer curbside pickup! Or order via linkinbio.⁠⠀⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ @bvdoshi @wrightwood659 @sangath_vsc_vsf @wuestenrotstiftung #VDMDoshi #balkrishnadoshi #doshi #bvdoshi #architecture #modernarchitecture #indianmodernism #modernism #pritzkerprize @pritzkerarchitectureprize @hansulrichobrist⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ https://www.instagram.com/p/CFIVWDJpST3/?igshid=q6qfb80mouwt