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The Promise:
Architect B.V. Doshi

90 mins.

The film tells the story of BV Doshi’s journey from European modernism of the 1950s to the architecture of the present. We visit with him the Indian buildings of Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, whose designs Doshi executed as a young architect, and talk to him about his teachers. We experience Doshi developing new projects today in his office in Ahmedabad with four partners and sixty employees. We visit the important buildings of Doshi in Bangalore, Indore and Ahmedabad and capture them cinematically, not only photographically. Doshi is not a formalist. For him, the focus is always on the individual who— as a student, worker, visitor or resident—uses his buildings. In the film, we therefore present Doshi’s buildings as living spaces for their users and talk to them about their experiences.

The film tells the story of BV Doshi’s journey from European modernism of the 1950s to the architecture of the present. We visit with him the Indian buildings of Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, whose designs Doshi executed as a young architect, and talk to him about his teachers. We experience Doshi developing new projects today in his office in Ahmedabad with four partners and sixty employees. We visit the important buildings of Doshi in Bangalore, Indore and Ahmedabad and capture them cinematically, not only photographically. Doshi is not a formalist. For him, the focus is always on the individual who— as a student, worker, visitor or resident—uses his buildings. In the film, we therefore present Doshi’s buildings as living spaces for their users and talk to them about their experiences.

Director(s): Jan Schmidt-Garre Category: Biography Release Date: 2023 Country: Germany
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