"My work is a story of my life, constantly evolving, changing and searching...trying to find a way to move away from the function that architecture exercises and look only at life."

I do not think there is a better explanation than the one used by Doshi himself to mean the architecture that is exercised in Sangath (move together, in Sanskrit). The success of the exercise proposed by Doshi lies precisely in its separation from the architecture of recognizable author to achieve a singular, unique and appropriate response to each architectural problem that arises from a look at the origins. The constant inquiry into Indian tradition, the understanding of local craftsmanship and the implementation of it through modernity, is a constant in Doshi's work , which financial aid us to understand the variety of architectural responses that we appreciate in the work of this master.

Born in Pune (1927), he began his architectural studies at programs of study in Mumbai in the same year as the British independence of India; he trained with Le Corbusier and Louis I. Kahn, first in Paris and then on site in the execution of their projects, both in Ahmedabad and Chandigargh. From the former he inherited the technique of a new material to build a nation in an optimistic climate of change, through the expression of it with a completely local identity. From Kahn, the reading of the millenary Indian architecture, together with the understanding of local craftsmanship to create a way of making absolutely specific to this subcontinent.

test of them are the outstanding responses offered to the different challenges of scale as diverse as their own housing (Kamala House). A reinterpretation of the traditional guyarati typology of the veranda, passing through Sanganth (foundation and architecture studio in Ahmedabad) where an exercise of contextual architecture is carried out through its adaptation to the climate and territory of the enclave. Also the autonomous use of cylindrical vaults for the subsequent formalization of project.

The large scale exercises, such as the extension of the Indian Institute of Management of his master Louis Kahn, or the work done on the different housing clusters for workers in Ahmebadad, as well as the recent proposal for the University of Nalanda in Northeast India. There, a complex typological and climatic understanding of this ancient Buddhist monastery is carried out to find a contemporary response; they speak very positively of a constant search for local parameters for a better architectural response.

Doshi's figure is understood along with that of his great friend, the late Charles Correa, as that of the fathers of a new generation of Indian architects who have learned with them to make the journey from their different local enclaves (Ahmebadad or Goa) to the world. We cannot separate Doshi's professional work from the creation of the Vastu Shilpa Foundation, where the work of research and development for India of various kinds, his work professor in CEPT Ahmedabad, which he led for so long and which helped to create a specific Indian way of thinking.

The recognition by the Pritzker to this long trajectory, 70 years of professional practice, explains a specific way of doing with the people, by the people and for the people. He offers a superior architectural experience without dwelling on preconceived formalisms, where the complete understanding of the proposed architectural problem requires all the senses at the same time. Awarding this architect recognizes a stubborn work of continuous independent research and away from fashions, nonconformist in response, where time financial aid to build a better and more specific architecture. Time becomes construction material.