Extending its string of unexpected choices — and its embrace of an unflashy architecture rooted in regional character and vernacular tradition — the Pritzker Prize jury announced Wednesday that its laureate for 2018 is the 90-year-old Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi. He won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, another top honor, in 1995, and was a member of the Pritzker jury from 2005 to 2007. He has taught at American universities including MIT, Rice and the University of Pennsylvania. But Doshi has been ambitious and prolific enough to move well past his mentors and produce an architectural language recognizably his own. The architect Balkrishna Doshi, winner of this year's Pritzker Prize.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 07, 2018 15:03 UTC