Place · management institute · India
IIM Ahmedabad campus
Also known as IIM Ahmedabad, IIMA, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Louis Kahn Plaza
The Louis Kahn-designed campus of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, built between 1962 and 1974 on a 60-hectare Vikram Sarabhai-chosen site. Kahn's red-brick architecture — the Louis Kahn Plaza, the Dormitories, the Vikram Sarabhai Library, the Faculty Block — is one of the subcontinent's most consequential works of twentieth-century modernism and a central document of Kahn's late career. The campus is on the UNESCO Tentative List since 2019 as part of the Trans-boundary Louis Kahn property. Founded in 1961 with the Harvard Business School's collaboration under Sarabhai's chairmanship, IIM-A has defined Indian management education since.
- Date
- 1961–1974
- Function
- Learning & scholarship
- Patron dynasty
- Indian Union
- Tradition
- Standard reference; INTACH, ASI and municipal records; institutional histories.
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 23.032, 72.530
Connections (1)
- Site withinAhmedabad / Karnāvatī / Āshāval
IIM Ahmedabad sits in the western part of Ahmedabad, on the 60-hectare Louis Kahn campus built from 1962 — within the modern city's institutional ensemble that also includes Vikram Sarabhai's PRL and the Nehru Foundation. The institutional cluster made Ahmedabad the subcontinent's most consequential post-independence planned scientific and management city.