Doshi, The Primordial Architect
John Hill
26. 1月 2023
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“Architecture as Organism (The Primordial Architect)” is one chapter in a film made by Bijoy and Premjit Ramachandran about architect Balkrishna Doshi, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2018 and died on January 24, 2023.
Doshi: The Second Chapter (2019) is the second film about the great Indian architect directed by Premjit Ramachandran and made with his brother Bijoy, architect at Hundredhands. Their first, eponymous Doshi documentary was first screened in 2008, a full decade before Doshi's Pritzker. That prize prompted the brothers to return to Sangath, Doshi's Ahmedabad studio, “to spend time with him to unravel more of the myth, metaphor and magic that make Doshi so magnetic.”
For them, the second documentary “not only introduce[s] people to a truly great modern architect, but also to an evolved, cultured human being and help[s] redirect our attention to the truly important questions of our time.”
The sixth chapter from Doshi: The Second Chapter, “Architecture as Organism (The Primordial Architect),” intersperses an interview with Doshi and footage of Amdavad ni Gufa, one of the architect's masterpieces:
- Doshi: The Second Chapter (Trailer)
- Chapter I: Architecture as Atmosphere (The Anonymous Architect)
- Chapter II: Architecture as Throughness (The Acrobat Architect)
- Chapter III: Architecture as Dialogue (The Visceral Architect)
- Chapter IV: Architecture as Wonder (The Mystic Architect)
- Chapter V: Architecture as Oasis (The Ethereal Architect)
- Chapter VI: Architecture as Organism (The Primordial Architect)
- Chapter VII: Architecture as Awakening (The Silent Architect)