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    Shivnath Prasad was an Indian architect born in 1922 who was heavily influenced by Le Corbusier's works as a student. After graduating with degrees in architecture and city planning, he worked in England and for the government of India on master plans for Delhi. In the 1960s-70s, Prasad ran his own practice in Delhi producing exposed concrete buildings reflecting Indian craftsmanship. He later taught architecture in the United States and is considered India's indigenous Le Corbusier, having pioneered the modern movement there through his distinctive style.

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    Shivnath Prasad was an Indian architect born in 1922 who was heavily influenced by Le Corbusier's works as a student. After graduating with degrees in architecture and city planning, he worked in England and for the government of India on master plans for Delhi. In the 1960s-70s, Prasad ran his own practice in Delhi producing exposed concrete buildings reflecting Indian craftsmanship. He later taught architecture in the United States and is considered India's indigenous Le Corbusier, having pioneered the modern movement there through his distinctive style.

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    • Shivnath Prasad was born at Lucknow in


    1922.
    • After graduating in architecture from the
    Edinburgh College of Art, UK in 1946,
    Prasad obtained a Diploma in City Planning
    in 1947.
    • He worked for a number of years in England
    as an architect and town planner before
    returning to India in 1955.
    • He joined the Town and Country Planning
    Organisation, Government of India, where
    he was the technical head of the Indian
    team which prepared the First Master Plan
    for Delhi in collaboration with a team of
    experts sponsored by the Ford Foundation.
    • In 1962, Prasad resigned from the
    government service to get back to
    architecture.
    • For the next about one decade, he ran a
    one-man practice based in Delhi.
    • His works of this period have been widely
    In context of his alliance with the master's design concepts, Prasad published in India and abroad. They are
    largely built of exposed reinforced concrete
    proudly admitted, "When I was introduced to architecture at the age of with rich patterns and textures to reflect
    16, it was a major switch from the high school. I was lost. One day Indian craftsmanship.
    glancing through the library books, I came across some works of Le • From 1973 onward, Prasad taught at several
    American universities.
    Corbusier. But still not understanding anything, I was fascinated by his
    • He has been a Thomas Jefferson Professor
    works, compared to others. And when I look back - it must be the at the University of Virginia, and Professor
    purity of his decisions, simplicity of his spaces, the clarity of of Architecture at the University of Illinois at
    everything else. I carried those images for many years through college, Urbana Champaign.
    and when I opened my small studio that influence had still lingered on" • With the demise of Shivnath Prasad in early
    2000s India lost its indigenous Le Corbusier
    (As stated in a note for an Exhibition of his works at University of thus creating a void which is hard to fill.
    Illinois in 1987).

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    https://www.slideshare.net/RISHIAGRAWAL3/contemporary-architecture-in-delhi-1955-
    1970

    https://worldarchitecture.org/architecture-
    news/cmzgp/an_ode_to_shivnath_prasad_the_le_corbusier_of_india.html

    https://architexturez.net/pst/az-cf-186376-1521996644

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