Portrait of a House: Conversations with BV Doshi places one of architecture's most celebrated minds in direct dialogue with photographer Dayanita Singh, using Kamala House as the site where two distinct creative practices illuminate each other.
About This Book
This book begins with a temple of light — Kamala House, named after BV Doshi's wife, and the first space Dayanita Singh ever photographed him in. What follows is not a monograph in any conventional sense, but a sustained exchange: Singh's black-and-white portraits of the house and its family life are met directly by Doshi's own responses, each image drawing out the hidden motivations behind his architectural thinking. The result is an intimate study of how light, movement, and domestic rhythm shape both a building and the people within it. For architects, photographers, and anyone drawn to the interior logic of a designed life, it is a rare document of two creative practices in genuine conversation.
Key Features
- 152 pages of black-and-white photographic portraits and architectural reflection
- Photography by Dayanita Singh; responses and conversation by BV Doshi
- Centred on Kamala House, Doshi's famed residential work named after his wife
- Published by Apartamento, ISBN 9788409688371
What You'll Discover
- How Doshi understood light and movement as active forces within domestic architecture, not merely aesthetic considerations
- The hidden motivations behind Doshi's architectural innovations, revealed through his direct responses to Singh's photographs
- The way a house can function as a living archive — its spaces alternately inducing rest or animated exchange among its inhabitants
- The productive kinship between architectural practice and photographic practice, where each discipline reframes what the other sees
About the Author
Dayanita Singh is a photo artist whose work frequently explores domestic space, memory, and the archive. Her long relationship with BV Doshi began when she first photographed him at Kamala House, a collaboration that forms the foundation of this book.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 152
- Dimensions: 160 x 218 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788409688371
- Publisher: Apartamento
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and design historians interested in Doshi's process; photographers drawn to the intersection of space and portraiture; readers seeking an intimate, image-led account of how a home shapes a life.