>> Matt Shaw, The New York Times Published: 01 Jan 2021 01:57 PM BdST Updated: 01 Jan 2021 01:57 PM BdST Louis Kahn Plaza on the IIM Ahmedabad's Heritage Campus. (The Photography Club, IIM Ahmedabad/Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license) A world-class architectural-preservation controversy is brewing in India, where the administration at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad had announced plans to raze 14 of 18 student dormitory buildings designed by architect Louis Kahn and built in the 1960s and 1970s. "); } After a local and international outcry, an online meeting to begin seeking new bids for the demolition was cancelled. Kahn, one of the most important American architects in history, is best known for masterworks like the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, as well as the Philips Exeter Academy Library in Exeter, New Hampshire, and the First Unitarian Church of Rochester, New York. (He also famously had three families, talked to bricks and died on the men’s room floor in Penn Station.)