• Achyut Purushottam Kanvinde (1916–28 December

2002) was an Indian architect who worked in

functionalist approaches with elements of Brutalist
architecture. He received the Padma Shri in 1974. He
was born in Achra, in the Konkan region of Maharashtra,
in 1916 in a large family.
 EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

• He was born in Achra, in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, in 1916 in a large family. His mother
died when he was two and his father was an arts teacher in Mumbai.

• Kanvinde, influenced by his father, a portrait and landscape painter, took up art and graduated in
architecture from Sir J.J. School of Arts, Mumbai in 1942.

• He was then sent by the Government of India to study at Harvard where he worked under 
Walter Gropius and was influenced by his thinking and teaching.

• The European masters of the Bauhaus – Albert Bayer, László Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer, and the
Swiss-American architectural historian Siegfried Giedion also had a great impact. Some of his
famous batchmates were Paul Rudolph, I. M. Pei and John Perkins.
 career

• When he returned to India he joined the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. In
1985, he was the winner of the IIA "Baburao Mhatre Gold Medal".[2]

• The University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore campus designed by Kanvinde and Rai

along with his partner Shaukat Rai, he opened the firm Kanvinde, Rai and Chowdhury in 
New Delhi (which is currently run by Sanjay Kanvinde, B.K. Tanuja and Murad Chowdhury).

• The firm has been responsible for IIT Kanpur, National Science Centre, Delhi, The National
Council of Applied Economic Research in New Delhi, NII Pune, numerous dairy buildings
under NDDB (such as Dudhsagar Dairy plant in Mehsana[3]) and many other buildings
 philosophies

• Kanvinde played with space and forms. A

famous example is the ISKCON Temple at
New Delhi. He gave great importance to
natural light. The form of the building is such
that the problem of ventilation as well as
excessive heat is beautifully solved. He
championed the cause of vernacular
architecture.

• He believed that values and historical

influences contributed towards good
architecture.
 Design concepts

• He believed that a grid of columns forming a matrix giving structural and

spatial aspect would turn a design more sophisticated and faceted.

• A art can be to nourish the senses.

• Art is purely an asthetic exercise.

• He treated his building with vastushastra.

Timeline of his work
 conclusion
• Kanvinde’s career spanned a period of about 50 years.

• It was a prolific career in that the scale and numberof projects he worked on from the beginning ar in comparable.

• “the roles which the schools have to play is to expose students to various situations and train them to cultivate and
appreciate values so that they can experience and sharpen their senses through observation and practice” –
KANVINDE

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