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'''Anant Damodar Raje''' (17 September 1929 – 27 June 2009) was an Indian [[architect]] and [[Academic staff|academic]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/With-Kahn-magic-Gnagar-would-have-rivalled-Chandigarh/articleshow/5911223.cms | newspaper=The Times Of India | title=With Kahn magic G'nagar would have rivalled Chandigarh | date=10 May 2010 | access-date=25 June 2018 }}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Anant Raje was born in [[Mumbai]], India. He graduated from the [[Sir J. J. College of Architecture]] in 1954.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Puri |first=Rajinder |date=November–December 1987 |title=Building on Tradition |magazine=Architecture + Design |volume=4 |page=14}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
He worked with [[Louis Kahn]] in [[Philadelphia]], where he also taught at the [[University of Pennsylvania]]. As Kahn's student, he devoted his life to see the completion of the [[Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad]], which Kahn did not live to see completed.<br />
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For over thirty years he has taught at the Faculty of Architecture, [[CEPT University]], [[Ahmedabad]]. He also taught at the [[University of New Mexico]], in [[The United States of America]], and was a visiting professor at many universities in America and Europe.<br />
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==Major buildings==<br />
* Executive Management Centre at the [[Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad|Indian Institute of Management]] in [[Ahmedabad]], [[India]]<br />
* [[Indian Institute of Forest Management]], [[Bhopal]], [[India]]<br />
* [https://www.isid.ac.in/ The Indian Statistical Institute] in [[New Delhi]].<br />
* Museum Of Minerals, Nagpur (unbuilt)<br />
* Galbabhai Farmers' Training Institute in [[Banaskantha, Gujarat]]<br />
*MAFCO wholesale market, Mumbai, India<br />
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==Death==<br />
Raje died on 27 June 2009.<br />
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*{{cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/surat/He-was-a-teacher-and-an-institution/articleshow/4721898.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811030453/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-07-01/surat/28153636_1_architecture-works-institution |url-status=live |archive-date=11 August 2011 |title=He was a teacher and an institution |date=1 July 2009 |work=[[The Times of India]] }}<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://architexturez.net/documents/author/25363 Texts and Projects by Anant Raje] on Architexturez South Asia<br />
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