Anant Raje
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Anant Damodar Raje (17 September 1929 – 27 June 2009) was an Indian architect and academic.{{cite news| url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/With-Kahn-magic-Gnagar-would-have-rivalled-Chandigarh/articleshow/5911223.cms | newspaper=The Times Of India | title=With Kahn magic G'nagar would have rivalled Chandigarh | date=10 May 2010 | access-date=25 June 2018 }}
Early life
Anant Raje was born in Mumbai, India. He graduated from the Sir J. J. College of Architecture in 1954.{{cite magazine |last=Puri |first=Rajinder |date=November–December 1987 |title=Building on Tradition |magazine=Architecture + Design |volume=4 |page=14}}
Career
He worked with Louis Kahn in Philadelphia, where he also taught at the University of Pennsylvania. As Kahn's student, he devoted his life to see the completion of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, which Kahn did not live to see completed.
For over thirty years he has taught at the Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad. He also taught at the University of New Mexico, in The United States of America, and was a visiting professor at many universities in America and Europe.
Major buildings
- Executive Management Centre at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India
- Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, India
- [https://www.isid.ac.in/ The Indian Statistical Institute] in New Delhi.
- Museum Of Minerals, Nagpur (unbuilt)
- Galbabhai Farmers' Training Institute in Banaskantha, Gujarat
- MAFCO wholesale market, Mumbai, India
Death
Raje died on 27 June 2009.
References
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- {{cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/surat/He-was-a-teacher-and-an-institution/articleshow/4721898.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811030453/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-07-01/surat/28153636_1_architecture-works-institution |url-status=live |archive-date=11 August 2011 |title=He was a teacher and an institution |date=1 July 2009 |work=The Times of India }}
External links
- [http://architexturez.net/documents/author/25363 Texts and Projects by Anant Raje] on Architexturez South Asia
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Category:Academic staff of CEPT University
Category:20th-century Indian architects
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