B.V. Doshi’s Lasting Legacy Shapes a Poetic Pavilion at Vitra’s Campus in Germany | Architectural Digest
Memory. Contemplation. Ritual. Movement. These were among the many words that the late architect Balkrishna “B.V.” Doshi, at home during the pandemic, scribbled on a piece of paper along with a drawing of a building and landscape. The illustration responded to an invitation from Rolf Fehlbaum, chairman emeritus of Vitra, to design “a shrine” for the brand’s headquarters in Weil am Rhein, Germany—a campus home to structures by Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry, SANAA, Herzog & de Meuron, and more. Doshi’s sketch, realized posthumously, now joins them, its snaking curves of weathered steel leading to a circular room, open to the sky through a perimeter aperture, where a mechanized gong releases a recurring flow of sound.