Achyut Kanvinde
“The role which the schools have to play is to expose students to various situations and train them to cultivate and appreciate values so that they can experience and sharpen their senses through observation and practice” - Kanvinde
ACHYUT
KANVINDE
Father of Modern Indian Architecture
Achyut Kanvinde |
Born: 1916
Died: 2003
Gender: Male
Country of Origin: India
Biography: He entered the Architecture Department at Sir J.J. School of Art in 1935 then headed by Claude Batley, who was also the premier architect of the country. He passed out in 1941. 1943, he joined the newly formed Council for Scientific and Industrial Research as architect. Achyut Kanvinde attended Harvard Graduate school of Design in 1945. In ‘47 appointed as the Chief Architect of CSIR. Formed Kanvinde and Rai in 1955. He was educated under Walter Gropius at Harvard University, where he graduated with a master’s degree in architecture in 1947. After returning to India in 1948 he worked on the planning and design of several laboratories for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. His early projects for the ATRIA (Ahmadabad Textiles Industries Research Association) and the headquarters for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi (both 1954), demonstrate the austere simplicity of the Bauhaus style. Kanvinde set up a private practice with the architect Shaukat Rai (b 1922) in 1955 and designed numerous institutional buildings, housing and industrial complexes for both the government and private clients. Most of these are facilities for education and research and include the Indian Institute of Technology (1960–65), Kanpur, the National Dairy Development Board (1974), Anand, the Nehru Science Centre (1982), Bombay, and the National Science Centre (1984), New Delhi. All Kanvinde’s buildings were conceived in a strict modernist vocabulary. The Nehru Science Centre, for example, has a concrete frame structure infilled with brick panels and
ACHYUT
KANVINDE
Father of Modern Indian Architecture
Achyut Kanvinde |
Born: 1916
Died: 2003
Gender: Male
Country of Origin: India
Biography: He entered the Architecture Department at Sir J.J. School of Art in 1935 then headed by Claude Batley, who was also the premier architect of the country. He passed out in 1941. 1943, he joined the newly formed Council for Scientific and Industrial Research as architect. Achyut Kanvinde attended Harvard Graduate school of Design in 1945. In ‘47 appointed as the Chief Architect of CSIR. Formed Kanvinde and Rai in 1955. He was educated under Walter Gropius at Harvard University, where he graduated with a master’s degree in architecture in 1947. After returning to India in 1948 he worked on the planning and design of several laboratories for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. His early projects for the ATRIA (Ahmadabad Textiles Industries Research Association) and the headquarters for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi (both 1954), demonstrate the austere simplicity of the Bauhaus style. Kanvinde set up a private practice with the architect Shaukat Rai (b 1922) in 1955 and designed numerous institutional buildings, housing and industrial complexes for both the government and private clients. Most of these are facilities for education and research and include the Indian Institute of Technology (1960–65), Kanpur, the National Dairy Development Board (1974), Anand, the Nehru Science Centre (1982), Bombay, and the National Science Centre (1984), New Delhi. All Kanvinde’s buildings were conceived in a strict modernist vocabulary. The Nehru Science Centre, for example, has a concrete frame structure infilled with brick panels and
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