Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, OAL, (born 26 August 1927) is an Indian architect. He is considered to be an important figure of Indian architecture and noted for his contributions to the evolution of architectural discourse in India. Having worked under Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, he is a pioneer of modernist and brutalist architecture in India.

His more noteworthy designs include the IIM Bangalore, IIM Udaipur, NIFT Delhi, Amdavad ni Gufa, CEPT University, and the Aranya Low Cost Housing development in Indore which was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.^[3]

In 2018, he became the first Indian architect to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, which is considered one of the most prestigious prizes in architecture. He has also been awarded the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan. He has been awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects‘ Royal Gold Medal for 2022.

Doshi’s other notable projects included the Institute of Indology, Ahmedabad (1962), Premabhai Hall, Ahmedabad (1976), and the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (1977–92). He was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Hong Kong, and other universities. He lectured extensively throughout his career and published his autobiography, Paths Uncharted, in 2011. That same year he was made an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters, France’s highest honour for the arts.In 2019 a retrospective of his work (“Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People”) was organized by the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany, and Wrightwood 659, a private exhibition space in Chicago.