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Achyut Kanvinde-The Functionalist Architect

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  Achyut P. Kanvinde (1916 –2002), the Indian architect with functionalist approaches with elements of Brutalist architecture. He was born in Achra, in Konkan region of Maharashtra in 1916. He believed that a grid of columns forming a matrix giving structural and spatial aspect would turn a design more sophisticated and faceted. ·        1935: Studied architecture under Claude Batley in Sir J. J School of Arts ·        1945: Completed Masters from Harvard, student of Walter Gropius (Thesis on Science Laboratories) ·        1947: Chief Architect of CSIR (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) ·        1955: Formed Kanvinde and Rai LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENTS ·         1976: Received the Padma Shree ·         1974-75: Became the president of IIA (Indian Institute of Architects) ·         1985: Winner of IIA “Baburao Mhatre Gold Medal” ·         1993: Awarded the Great Masters Award from JK Industries Ltd ·         Part of the jury on the competition for Indira
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Zaha Hadid- The Queen of Curves

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  Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid was a British-Iraqi architect born on 31st October 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She grew up in Baghdad’s first Bauhaus inspired buildings and became the founder of the leading Zaha Hadid Architects which has designed over 950 projects in 44 different countries. She was also talented in painting, graphic arts, 3D models and computer designs. EDUCATION:  Alma Mater- American University of Beirut and Architectural Association School of Architecture. She read Mathematics at The American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where she met Rem Koolhas, Elia Zenghelis and Bernard Tschumi. Then she worked for her former professors, Koolhaas and Zenghelis, at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands of which she became a partner in 1977. Zaha Hadid became the first woman to be awarded Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, for her internationally known theoreti
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