Plans to Raze Louis Kahn-Designed Dorms in India Are on Hold

Plans to take down 14 of 18 dorm rooms developed by the designer Louis Kahn for the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad that triggered a worldwide uproar were curtailed on Friday.

The college’s board of guvs stated in a letter Friday that in reaction to comments it was “withdrawing the Expression of Interest” to destroy the dormitories, which were constructed in the 1960s and also ’70s, and also would certainly reunite its structure board to locate a remedy that honors the tradition of the school while fulfilling the college’s future requirements.

The pupil dorm rooms in Ahmedabad exemplify Kahn’s capacity to make structures in “response to the cultures, climates and traditions of their respective places,” stated the chronicler William J.R. Curtis, that created op-eds for Architectural Record and also The Architectural Review on behalf of the dormitories’ conservation.

In a declaration on Wednesday, the World Monuments Fund asked for the demolition to be reassessed.

The monitoring institute’s supervisor, Errol D’Souza, had previously protected the strategies in a Dec. 23 letter to graduates, calling the frameworks “unlivable” due to problems consisting of “concrete and slabs falling from the roofs”; block wear and tear creating breaking and also water infiltration; and also architectural issues arising from a 2001 quake.