Inspiring Indian: The Indian Who Won Architecture's Highest Prize

This man was the only Indian to ever win architecture's highest award. This is his life story.

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00:00Architecture is to open doors, not one but many.

01:01Corbusier did not pay me for eight months and I had hardly any money.

01:07Eight months with olive and cheese and bread, that's all.

01:31The first project that I did after returning from Corbusier

01:36was this housing for the poor, for the industry.

02:00I saw the courtyards, the corridors, the places around and shrines in between,

02:25but beautiful light and people walking, meandering but gradually changing their nature.

02:31The process of movement also helps us.

02:44There are a couple of constants that I always work.

02:47I try to relate with the sky and the ground.

02:55A campus must be a place of discovery, a place of not knowing and then knowing.

03:25Corpus Christi