It's likely that most of us have missed the chance to own one of Balkrishna Doshi's designs. That's an opportunity that would have been anyway hard to come by, given that most of this Ahmedabad-based architect's projects were educational institutions, public structures and low-cost housing. There is also Amdavad ni Gufa, an enigmatic cave-like art gallery, the walls of which were turned into a canvas by MF Husain.

However, here is a rare chance to make this visionary's aesthetic your own. The July-August edition of Architecture Digest India (AD) has, quite possibly, the world's first concrete-finish magazine cover designed by Doshi. As an influential architect of post-Independence India, Doshi, 90, was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize (the Nobel equivalent for the field) earlier this year, becoming the first Indian to receive the award. The Pritzker jury statement read, in words that have now become synonymous with Doshi: "[He] has always created an architecture that is serious, never flashy or a follower of trends." In an interview, Doshi share his thoughts on contemporary Indian architecture.