Architecture is Within Us: The Selected Works of Balkrishna Doshi

An original exhibition commissioned by The Boston Architectural College and curated by Khushnu Panthaki Hoof.

This exhibit reveals Doshi’s emerging sense of architecture as a platform for living with dignity and joy and evolution. Doshi’s illustrious work spans over 60 years at multiple scales and exemplifies the crucial role architecture plays in connecting society and promoting wellbeing, a sense of identity, and communal spirit. This exhibit, along with complementary programming provided by the BAC, brings to the forefront the need for social, economic, gender, and racial diversity in architecture and allied design fields.

Architect Balkrishna Doshi’s life and work has moved like a steady stream of consciousness, drawing from context, climate, culture, and craft. Through serendipitous associations or chance encounters, the architect’s quest has remained rooted in multiplicities of being, thinking and manifesting. While Doshi’s architecture has been analyzed and viewed critically through the lenses of humanism, empathy, and experience – the exhibition uncovers his search for the intangible, explored through journeys across built projects and the contexts which made them possible. The exhibition is a journey through the architect-artist’s interior landscape, writ with ideas, outlined by the perpetual practice of introspection, recording, and questioning one’s location in the cosmos of life.

The exhibit was on display in the McCormick Gallery at the BAC from January 2023 to May 2023.