Born :September 1929 in Bombay.

1954:Graduated in Architecture, Sir J.J. School of Fine Arts, Bombay,

1957-1960 :Professional practice with Mr. B.V. Doshi, Architect in Ahmedabad
working on Housing for the Textile Industry workers and Housing for Low-Income
group, Gujarat University Science Laboratories and Textile Pavilion for Indian
Industrial Exposition in New Delhi.
1961-1964 :Professional work in Ahmedabad.
1964-1968 :In the office of Prof. Louis I. Kahn in Philadelphia.
1969- 1971 :Working on construction of the Indian Institute of Business
Management Building complex with Louis . Kahn, as his representative to develop
design details and organize site office unit and construction work in Ahmedabad
He is Honorary Director of the School of Architecture, Ahmedabad.
ANANT DAMODAR RAJE

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Work of Anant Raje With Louis Kahn
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad


Established:1961
Type: Education and
Research Institution
Location : Ahmedabad,
Gujarat, India
Campus : Urban, 100 acres
(0.40 km)


The campus of IIMA is dominated
by the baked brick style favored by
its chief architect, the famous
Louis Kahn from Philadelphia.
All the structures are designed to
be part of a whole and create a
red-brick mini-cityscape that
attracts many architecture
students.
Other architects who collaborated
on the campus include the
renowned B. V. Doshi and Anant
Raje.
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Designed by Louis Kahn,campus of the
Institute has it all:
a blend of austerity and majesty;
spaces for casual interaction;
frequently changing perspectives;
and a balance between modernity and
tradition that captures the spirit of
contemporary India.
It stimulates the imagination and
creativity of the students, who are
clearly the best in the country, coming
as they do after one of the most
rigorous selection process."

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Kahn's architecture is notable for
its simple, platonic forms and
compositions.
Kahn design of buildings,
characterized by powerful,
massive forms, made him one of
the most discussed architects to
emerge after World War II.
Through the use of brick and
poured-in place concrete masonry,
he developed a contemporary and
monumental architecture that
maintained sympathy for the site.
ANANT DAMODAR RAJE


Designed a number of private and public projects in many
Indian cities including
Bhopal Development Authority Headquarters
M.A.F.C.O. Wholesale Market built in 1975.
Galbabhai Training Institute
Institute for Forest Management


Bhopal Development Authority Headquarters

LOCATION :Bhopal, India
Client: Bhopal Development Authority
Date:1988
Building Type: Government
Building Usage: Type: Government office

BHOPAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY HEADQUARTERS
Even though the entire plot is covered by the building to get the maximum land
utilization, it has enough open space for terraces built and integrated in the
composition of the layout.
SECTIONS
PLANS
TERRACES
Besides the ground level designed for the movement of vehicles, the elevated
terrace levels keep the pedestrian movement isolated from the vehicular traffic.
Bhopal Development Authority Headquarters

All openings are integrated with the structure in such a way that they create a
pocket of shadow within which the windows fall offering a complete freedom to the
design and form of the windows.

To Raje, , light does not merely have the significance of a
functional signal
He says-my work, is like taking light in the form that is
brought to us, in the sense of the plan and the choice of
material , where you have these gradations of light which
become evocative of certain kinds of uses.
When I'm talking about dark spaces, I don't mean to say
absolutely black or anything like that, because no-thing is
really black; even night is not really black if you look up into
the sky, there is a little luminous glow.
The building works with the climate shading the internal spaces from
the hot summer sun.
RECESSES IN THE WALL
BALCONIES PROVIDED
Bhopal
Development
Authority
Headquarters

M.A.F.C.O. WHOLESALE MARKET IN MUMBAI
PLAN
Its an outward looking informal structure
PLAN AND
SECTION OF
TRADING CELLS
The project layout limits transit vehicular
movement and enhances pedestrian
circulation within the commercial complex.
Covered walkways and pedestrian streets
are provided.
The different facilities are arranged around
three courts, with the wholesale market at
the center and the trading cells, banks and
post office buildings on the periphery.



GALBABHAI TRAINING INSTITUTE
PALANPUR, INDIA


The buildings are based on the repetition
of 4.5 meter wide structural bays roofed
with a barrel vault concrete shell.
This standardization allowed for a rapid
and economical construction process.
The project also features an auction hall
with raised platform for loading and
unloading produce.
PLAN
SECTIONS

The series of loggias making up the
dormitories do not open on the courtyard
placed in their center in order to achieve
maximum privacy
The compound is enclosed by stone walls,
and the buildings' openings are spanned
by concrete lintels and are deeply
recessed to provide additional shade.

The exposed stone
facades and arched
lintels used
throughout convey a
visual unity to the
overall design.

The complex, built in the midst of wheat fields,
consists of two distinct clusters respectively
housing the school and residential units.
The former group of structures, accessed by a
courtyard, is designed as a house, with several
courts and rooms where people can gather, and
a verandah used as a dining space.
Indoor and outdoor areas are clearly defined so
as to reflect the villagers' perception of space
and seclusion.
INSTITUTE OF FOREST
MANAGEMENT, BHOPAL
Location: Bhopal,
India
Architect/Planner:
Anant Damodar Raje
Client: Indian Institute
of Forest Management
Date:1984Century20th
Decade:1980sBuilding
Type: educational
Building
Usage: training center
Project :ID1429
PLAN
The project restates time
tested premises of the court
and garden, fundamental
to most Islamic architecture
in India. The land stradles
two hills with outcrops of
slate. The natural
vegetation is wild grass,
which has been allowed to
grow, augmented by rows
and clumps of trees. The
rooms, arcade and porch, are
made from a simple
vocabulary of trabeated and
arcuated construction, with
the walls clad with stone
screed in shades of green
and yellow grey that
establishes a close rapport
with the site.
Demonstrating rigours and
containing faiths so necessary,
and yet elusive in practice. The
IIFM building has become a
touchstone for the professional,
especially the young.
Humanism & Urbanism: Using
primarily Enlightenment
design methods, and developing
a particular variant of technique
or the mode of knowing best
represented by the school of
Louis Kahn, Anant Raje
constructs an ideogrammatic
representation of architecture
Main
plaza
Main
approach
Main faade
View to side faade
Faade loggias
Stone
staircase
Detail of stone
load-bearing
faade
The chaotic metropolis of Bombay deeply
influences Raje and he infact proclaims himself
an "urban man" contrary to Doshi who although
from the same school, looks to village life.
Anant rajes Stress is placed on integration of
culture and spiritual wellbeing and efforts as
designer are aimed at process of integration of
man, the space around him and the elements
making up the space.