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Architects of 20th & 21st Centuries

The following is a list of notable Indian
Indian
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 architects of the 20th & 21st century:

  • Rahul Mehrotra
    Rahul Mehrotra
    Rahul Mehrotra is principal of architecture firm Rahul Mehrotra Associates of Mumbai, India and is Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Mass., USA...

  • Anant Raje
    Anant Raje
    Anant Damodar Raje was an Indian architect and intellectual-Early life:Ananth Raje was born in Mumbai, India. He studied at the Sir J. J. College of Architecture.-Career:...

  • B. V. Doshi
    B. V. Doshi
    Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi is an Indian architect.-Early life:B. V. Doshi was born in Pune, India. He studied at the J. J. School of Architecture, Mumbai.-Career:...

  • Charles Correa
    Charles Correa
    Charles Correa is an Indian architect, planner and activist.-Early life:Charles Correa was born in Hyderabad, India...

  • Christopher Charles Benninger
    Christopher Charles Benninger
    Christopher Charles Benninger is an American-Indian architect and planner born in the United States in 1942. He studied urban planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, where he later taught .Benninger studied under Josep Lluis...

  • Claude Batley
    Claude Batley
    Claude Batley was an English architect who left for India in 1913 and started a successful practice there in 1917 with Gregson and King, a firm of architects which is still extant under the name of Gregson, Batley and King.Among his works are the Bombay Gymkhana , Wankaner Palace now Lincoln...

  • Eugene Pandala
    Eugene Pandala
    Eugene Pandala is an Indian architect, known for building with values of environmental sustainability. Eugene Pandala did Masters in Urban Design from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. He had his Fellowship in Heritage Conservation at University of York and at Fort Brockhurst in U.K...

  • Gautam Bhatia
    Gautam bhatia
    Gautam Bhatia is one of the most famous architecture authors in India. He is known for telling architecture tales humorously. He has written Punjabi Baroque and Comic Century....

  • V. Ganapati Sthapati
    V. Ganapati Sthapati
    Vaidyanatha Ganapati Sthapati was a Sthapati , and head of the College of Architecture and Sculpture in the Vastu Shastra tradition ascribed to the sage Mamuni Mayan.-Biography:...

  • Hafeez Contractor
    Hafeez Contractor
    Hafeez Contractor is an Indian architect. He is a member of the Bombay Heritage Committee and New Delhi Lutyens Bungalow Zone Review Committee.-Early life:Hafiz Contractor was born in Bombay in a Parsi family...

  • Pierre Jeanneret
    Pierre Jeanneret
    Pierre Jeanneret was a Swiss architect who collaborated with his more famous brother Charles Edouard Jeanneret for about twenty years....


  • Himanshu Parikh
    Himanshu Parikh
    -Early life:Himanshu Parikh was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. He graduated from Cambridge University, where he obtained both his bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering sciences with honours.-Career:...

  • Joseph Allen Stein
    Joseph Allen Stein
    Joseph Stein, was an American architect. An a major figure in the establishment of a regional modern architecture in the San Francisco Bay area in the 1940s and 1950s during the early days of the environmental design movement, he is noted for designing several important buildings in India, most...

  • Laurie Baker
    Laurie Baker
    Laurence Wilfred "Laurie" Baker was an award-winning British-born Indian architect, renowned for his initiatives in cost-effective energy-efficient architecture and for his unique space utilisation and simple but beautiful aesthetic sensibility...

  • Piloo Mody
    Piloo Mody
    Piloo Mody was an Indian politician and the founder of the Swatantra Party. He was an advocate of liberal and free politics of India. He was a member of the 4th and 5th Lok Sabha. He represented Godhra constituency in Gujarat in the parliament. Later, he was a member of the Rajya Sabha from 10...

  • Raj Rewal
    Raj Rewal
    -Early life:Raj Rewal was born in 1934 in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India. He created a revolution in geometric design systems. Creation of geometric systems and responding visual imageries are apparent in Raj Rewal’s architectural works....

  • Satish Gujral
    Satish Gujral
    Satish Gujral is an Indian painter, sculptor, muralist, graphic designer and architect. He was awarded Padma Vibhushan in 1999....

  • Sheila Sri Prakash
    Sheila Sri Prakash
    Sheila Sri Prakash is an architect and planner of Indian origin. She founded Shilpa Architects in Chennai, India in 1979 and has the distinction of being the first woman in India to have started and operated her own architectural firm...



Architects of 19th Century

The following is a list of notable Indian architects of the 19th century:
  • Henry Irwin
    Henry Irwin
    Henry Irwin, a renowned architect of British India was born on 21 January 1841, in Tarbett, County Kerry, Ireland. He is mainly known for his works in Indo-Saracenic style of architecture. He was a member of the Institution of Engineers. He died on 5 August 1922, at Ooty, India...

  • Samuel Swinton Jacob
    Samuel Swinton Jacob
    Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob was an English engineer, architect and writer, active in India and best known for the numerous public buildings he designed in the Indo-Saracenic style.-Early life and education:...

  • Charles Wyatt
    Charles Wyatt
    For musician and writer see Charles Wyatt .Charles Wyatt was an English architect and Member of Parliament for Sudbury, Suffolk....

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