The Boston Architectural College Launches Bac Channel With Mahesh Daas Featuring Pritzker Laureate Balkrishna Doshi

Renowned international architect, urban planner, educator, and Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Balkrishna Doshi. Pratik Gajjar.Image(c)Vastushilpa Foundation.
Renowned international architect, urban planner, educator, and Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate Balkrishna Doshi. Pratik Gajjar.Image(c)Vastushilpa Foundation.

BOSTON, April 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Boston Architectural College (BAC) announces the launching of its newest video venture, BAC Channel with Mahesh Daas. This ongoing program will offer a series of exclusive, insightful, and one-on-one conversations between President Mahesh Daas and thought leaders from around the design professions and related industries.

Each episode aligns with the BAC’s critical mission to diversify the design professions through expanded access to excellence in design education. Another key program goal includes increasing awareness of the design discipline to advance design literacy within the public sphere.

Dr. Mahesh Daas, ACSA Distinguished Professor, serves as the eighth president of The Boston Architectural College (BAC).
Dr. Mahesh Daas, ACSA Distinguished Professor, serves as the eighth president of The Boston Architectural College (BAC).

The BAC is honored to kick-off its inaugural episode of BAC Channel with Mahesh Daas by featuring Professor Balkrishna Doshi—India’s first and only Pritzker prize winning architect, educator, guru, and the BAC’s 2021 honorary alumnus. As President Daas noted, “While the number of his projects might be measurable, the impact of his influence is immeasurable.”

In this first episode, which was filmed during the height of the global pandemic, Professor Doshi and President Daas speak candidly about his life and career spanning nine decades, discussing design education, theory, rituals, space, architecture as well as the immense impact on our global structures and society during a global pandemic.

Watch this unique conversation during the inaugural launch of BAC Channel with Mahesh Daas—experience a candid discussion, and delve into the prodigious life of a leading architect, guru, and educator of our time, Professor Balkrishna Doshi.

Stay tuned for more information on upcoming episodes of BAC Channel with Mahesh Daas by visiting our website.