B.V Doshi is a pioneer of Modernist and Brutalist architecture in India. His noteworthy designs include the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Indian Institute of Management Udaipur, National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi Campus (Set up in 1986 at Hauz Khas, based on the concept of a central step-well to conserve rainwater, a traditional Indian Baoli and is listed as one of the modern Iconic architecture of Delhi) and the Aranya Low Cost Housing development, Indore which was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
He became the first Indian architect to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize.