The ideas of Gropius and the Bauhaus, as presented in their North American context, were far from aped in India. Gropius' design philosophy, not necessarily his forms, and its application in India is most clearly evident in Kanvide's designs of the ATIRA and PRL buildings.
The functional areas in both buildings are separated although linked; they both have a purity of form and they both use newly developed building technologies. The sunshades on the southern facade run the full course of the building in continuous lines while on the northern facade the fenestration is flush with the wall. In these buildings, Kanvinde introduced the flexible column and beam grid to India. In the Bank of India building (1961) in Bhadra, Ahmedabad, he pioneered the use of the waffle slab.
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" ... These architectural, structural and constructional ideas were all highly influential in India simply because their logic and utility were easy to understand and follow. The appropriateness to India of this early work remains a question."
[Source: Lang, Jon. Concise History of Modern Architecture in India. Permanent Black, 2010, pp 52-53]