Achyut Kanvinde

• Name — Achyut Kanvinde • Born — 9 February 1916 • Birthplace — Achra, Bombay Presidency • Died — 28 December 2002 • Education — Sir J. J. College of Architecture • Awards — Padma Shri (1974) • Practice — Kanvinde, Rai and Chowdhury • Significant Buildings — Campus of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Campus of Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur • Illustration — PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur, designed by Achyut Kanvinde

• Illustration — Achyut Kanvinde at CSIR He was born on 9 February 1916 in Achra, in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, 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.

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". • Illustration — 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) and many other buildings.

He believed that a grid of columns forming a matrix giving structural and spatial aspect would turn a design more sophisticated and faceted.

• ISKCON Temple, Delhi • Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur • Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) • Dudhsagar Dairy plant in Mehsana • Darpana Academy of Performing Arts (1962) • Ahmedabad Textile Industry's Research Association (ATIRA) complex (1950–1954) • Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) building (1952) • University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore buildings • Various Campus and Buildings under National Dairy Development Board (NDDB)

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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. It is also recorded that achyut Kanvinde is recorded with the occupation architect. It is also recorded that achyut Kanvinde is recorded as a citizen of Dominion of India. It is also recorded that achyut Kanvinde is recorded with the gender male. Born on 9 February 1916. It is also recorded that achyut Kanvinde died on 28 December 2002.