_Photo by Edmund Sumner_

Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi is the Pritzker Laureate 2018. Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi (1927) is an Indian architect. He is considered to be an important figure of South Asian architecture and noted for his contributions to the evolution of architectural discourse in India. His more noteworthy designs include the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and the Aranya Low Cost Housing development in Indore which was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. In 2018, he became the first Indian architect to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize. _Source: Wikipedia_