Anant Raje

Summary

Anant Damodar Raje (17 September 1929 – 27 June 2009) was an Indian architect and academic.[1]

Anant Damodar Raje
Born(1929-09-17)17 September 1929
Died27 June 2009(2009-06-27) (aged 79)
Alma materSir J. J. College of Architecture
OccupationArchitect

Early life edit

Anant Raje was born in Mumbai, India. He graduated from the Sir J. J. College of Architecture in 1954.[2]

Career edit

He worked with Louis Kahn in Philadelphia, where he also taught at the University of Pennsylvania. As Kahn's student, he devoted his life to see the completion of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, which Kahn did not live to see completed.

For over thirty years he has taught at the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad. He also taught at the University of New Mexico, in The United States of America, and was a visiting professor at many universities in America and Europe.

Major buildings edit

Death edit

Raje died on 27 June 2009.

References edit

  1. ^ "With Kahn magic G'nagar would have rivalled Chandigarh". The Times Of India. 10 May 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
  2. ^ Puri, Rajinder (November–December 1987). "Building on Tradition". Architecture + Design. Vol. 4. p. 14.
  • "He was a teacher and an institution". The Times of India. 1 July 2009. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011.

External links edit

  • Texts and Projects by Anant Raje on Architexturez South Asia