IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week’s news Dezeen as leading Indian architects pick their favourite Indian buildings.
Dezeen writes:
From a 14th-century landmark to brutalist structures by Le Corbusier, here are 12 buildings that Indian architects chose when Dezeen asked them to name their homeland’s most significant piece of architecture.
We contacted 13 prominent architects in India and asked them to pick a building in India that has been particularly inspirational to them and influential on their practice.
Among their choices are three buildings by the most famous Indian architect, Charles Correa, two by legendary modernist Le Corbusier and two by American architect Joseph Allen Stein. Two architects selected the same project by Balkrishna Doshi, recipient of last year’s RIBA Royal Gold Medal.
Most were built in the four decades following India’s independence from the British Empire in 1947.
All of the buildings selected were designed by men, reflecting the historic overwhelming dominance of men in India’s architecture profession, with Sheila Sri Prakash becoming the first woman in the country to set up her own studio in 1979.
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