Achyut Kanvinde - 1389 Words

â€Å"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†¦show more content†¦Kanvinde gave full rein to his innate creativity in such a charged environment†. Though there is thus a clear agreement about his early works, there is no accepted view on whether his later works were an evolution of the Modern view or a new approach. We believe that although he questioned the basic values of modernism early on, his major work speaks of his adaptation of the modernist/ brutalist style. Style: By the end of 1960s Kanvinde’s expressive architecture was variously interpreted as an architectural expression that reflected the culture and aspirations and clearly reflected the rise of the Brutalist polemic of architecture. Expressed Concrete structure in combination with brick became the dynamic determinant of form and order. Here the paradox is that what (Brutalism) in the West was popular for the dynamism and the aesthetic of vigour, in neo-Gandhian India of 1970s is regarded a realistic and expressive product of India. In retrospect, that style shows a remarkable similarity with the brute morphology of vernacular architecture in parts of India. HARIVALLABHDAS HOUSE: * Site Location- Ahemdabad. * Site Area- 1200m2 * Materials Used: RCC frame, brick and grit finish. Distinct living modules are arranged under a sweeping parasol and sensitively sited in a garden setting. We can clearly