In 1956, Doshi hired two architects and founded his own practice, Vāstu Shilpā, which has since been renamed Vāstu Shilpā Consultants and grown to employ five partners and sixty employees and has completed more than 100 projects since its inception.

Infused with lessons from Western architects before him, he forged his artistic vision with a deep reverence for life, Eastern culture, and forces of nature to create an architecture that was personal, laced with sights, sounds, and memories from his past.

Alongside a deep respect for Indian history and culture, elements of his youth—memories of shrines, temples and bustling streets; scents of lacquer and wood from his grandfather’s furniture workshop—all find a way into his architecture.