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==Personal life== | ==Personal life== | ||
A member of the [[Parsi]] community Piloo Mody was one of the sons of [[Homi Mody|Sir Homi Mody]]. He was educated at [[The Doon School]], [[Dehradun]].<ref name="postcol_India">{{cite book| title=Constructing Post-Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School| publisher=[[Routledge]]| author=Srivastava, Sanjay| year=1998| location=[[London]]| pages=[https://archive.org/details/constructingpost0000sriv/page/240 240]| isbn=0-203-98027-1|url=https://archive.org/details/constructingpost0000sriv| url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name="ind_exp">{{cite news| url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/seven-doscos-in-15th-lok-sabha/468807| title=Seven Doscos in 15th Lok Sabha| work=[[The Indian Express]]| agency=[[Press Trust of India|PTI]]| date=31 May 2009| accessdate=29 November 2012| location=[[Dehradun]]}}</ref> After School he attended [[Sir J. J. College of Architecture]] and the [[University of California, Berkeley]], from where he graduated with a master's degree in [[architecture]]. [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], who went on to become [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] in the 1970s, was his college roommate and the two were close friends.<ref name="Pune Mirror 2017">{{cite web | title=The not-so-secret agents of Islamabad | website=Pune Mirror | date=2017-06-18 | url=https://punemirror.indiatimes.com/others/leisure/the-not-so-secret-agents-of-islamabad/articleshow/59197134.cms | access-date=2020-07-07|quote=Mody and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto studied together in Mumbai’s Cathedral school and Berkeley and were close friends.}}</ref><ref name="Marfatia 2019">{{cite web | last=Marfatia | first=Meher | title='The world revolves around an idea' | website=mid-day | date=2019-06-09 | url=https://www.mid-day.com/articles/the-world-revolves-around-an-idea/21110172 | access-date=2020-07-15}}</ref> He was married to an American, Lavina Colgan Mody, who was a fellow architect student at Berkeley on 3 January 1953.<ref name="tribune">{{cite news| url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060112/edit.htm#5| title=Humour in Parliament| work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]]| date=12 January 2006| accessdate=29 November 2012| author=Agarwal, Sudarshan| author-link=Sudarshan Agarwal}}</ref><ref name="Parliament of India, Lok Sabha 1926">{{cite web | title=Members Bioprofile | website=Parliament of India, Lok Sabha | date=1926-11-14 | url=http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/1858.htm | access-date=2020-07-27|quote=MODY, SHRI PILOO, M.A., Arch. (California), (Swa.) Gujarat-Godhra—1971, Son of Shri Homi Mody; b. at Bombay, November 14, 1926; ed. at Doon School, Dehradun, Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay and University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.; m. Smt. Vina Colgan, January 3, 1953; Architect; Editor, "March of the Nation" (English Weekly, Bombay); President, (i) The Panchmahals Khedut Vikas Kendra, Godhra, and (ii) The Panchmahals Community Chest, Bombay; Executive Vice-President, Swatantra Party, Bombay; Vice-President, Indian Institute of Architects; Member, (i) The Board of Governors, School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, (ii) Committee of the All India Board of Technical Education on Architecture and Regional Planning, and (iii) Fourth Lok Sabha, 1967-70. | A member of the [[Parsi]] community Piloo Mody was one of the sons of [[Homi Mody|Sir Homi Mody]]. He was educated at [[The Doon School]], [[Dehradun]].<ref name="postcol_India">{{cite book| title=Constructing Post-Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School| publisher=[[Routledge]]| author=Srivastava, Sanjay| year=1998| location=[[London]]| pages=[https://archive.org/details/constructingpost0000sriv/page/240 240]| isbn=0-203-98027-1|url=https://archive.org/details/constructingpost0000sriv| url-access=registration}}</ref><ref name="ind_exp">{{cite news| url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/seven-doscos-in-15th-lok-sabha/468807| title=Seven Doscos in 15th Lok Sabha| work=[[The Indian Express]]| agency=[[Press Trust of India|PTI]]| date=31 May 2009| accessdate=29 November 2012| location=[[Dehradun]]}}</ref> After School he attended [[Sir J. J. College of Architecture]] and the [[University of California, Berkeley]], from where he graduated with a master's degree in [[architecture]]. [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], who went on to become [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] in the 1970s, was his college roommate and the two were close friends.<ref name="Pune Mirror 2017">{{cite web | title=The not-so-secret agents of Islamabad | website=Pune Mirror | date=2017-06-18 | url=https://punemirror.indiatimes.com/others/leisure/the-not-so-secret-agents-of-islamabad/articleshow/59197134.cms | access-date=2020-07-07|quote=Mody and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto studied together in Mumbai’s Cathedral school and Berkeley and were close friends.}}</ref><ref name="Marfatia 2019">{{cite web | last=Marfatia | first=Meher | title='The world revolves around an idea' | website=mid-day | date=2019-06-09 | url=https://www.mid-day.com/articles/the-world-revolves-around-an-idea/21110172 | access-date=2020-07-15}}</ref> He was married to an American, Lavina Colgan Mody, who was a fellow architect student at Berkeley on 3 January 1953.<ref name="tribune">{{cite news| url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060112/edit.htm#5| title=Humour in Parliament| work=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]]| date=12 January 2006| accessdate=29 November 2012| author=Agarwal, Sudarshan| author-link=Sudarshan Agarwal}}</ref><ref name="Parliament of India, Lok Sabha 1926">{{cite web | title=Members Bioprofile | website=Parliament of India, Lok Sabha | date=1926-11-14 | url=http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/1858.htm | access-date=2020-07-27|quote=MODY, SHRI PILOO, M.A., Arch. (California), (Swa.) Gujarat-Godhra—1971, Son of Shri Homi Mody; b. at Bombay, November 14, 1926; ed. at Doon School, Dehradun, Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay and University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.; m. Smt. Vina Colgan, January 3, 1953; Architect; Editor, "March of the Nation" (English Weekly, Bombay); President, (i) The Panchmahals Khedut Vikas Kendra, Godhra, and (ii) The Panchmahals Community Chest, Bombay; Executive Vice-President, Swatantra Party, Bombay; Vice-President, Indian Institute of Architects; Member, (i) The Board of Governors, School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi, (ii) Committee of the All India Board of Technical Education on Architecture and Regional Planning, and (iii) Fourth Lok Sabha, 1967-70. | ||
}}</ref> He had 2 brothers ,Kali Mody ,a pioneer of | }}</ref> He had 2 brothers, Kali Mody, a pioneer of credit card operations in India and [[Russi Mody]], a former chairman of the Tata Iron and Steel company Limited.<ref name="The Times of India 2013">{{cite web | title=Kali Homi Mody | website=The Times of India | date=2013-03-13 | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Kali-Homi-Mody/articleshow/18954872.cms | access-date=2020-10-06|quote=Son of the late Sir Homi and Lady Jerbai Mody, husband of the late Nina Kali Mody, father of Jimmy and the late Danny Mody, father in law of Feroza Mody, grandfather of Cyrus Mody and Karene Shaun Lawyer, brother of Russi Mody and the late Piloo Mody peacefully passed away on 11/03/2013.}}</ref> | ||
==Work as architect== | ==Work as architect== | ||
After his stint at Berkeley he returned to India.He worked for two years spent on the Chandigarh Capital Project.He also designed the Chennai headquarters of Engineering Construction Corporation, a former subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Ltd. It won the ''Federation Internationale de la Precontrainte'' prize for excellence in pre-stressed concrete from India.<ref name="Marfatia 2019"/> | After his stint at Berkeley he returned to India.He worked for two years spent on the Chandigarh Capital Project.He also designed the Chennai headquarters of Engineering Construction Corporation, a former subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Ltd. It won the ''Federation Internationale de la Precontrainte'' prize for excellence in pre-stressed concrete from India.<ref name="Marfatia 2019"/> | ||
Piloo and Vina set up an architecture firm Mody and Colgan in 1953 at Stadium House, Churchgate.Their first project was a residential apartment at Marine Lines for senior officials of TISCO. They also designed the front casing of one model of Voltas Air conditioner . | Piloo and Vina set up an architecture firm Mody and Colgan in 1953 at Stadium House, Churchgate.Their first project was a residential apartment at Marine Lines for senior officials of TISCO. They also designed the front casing of one model of Voltas Air conditioner. | ||
Piloo's other projects include residential project Olympus, three TELCO offices, the headquarters of Bharat Bijlee, Mukand Iron and Steel, Sandoz, Voltas and Diners Club and Business Service centres.<ref name="Marfatia 2019"/> | Piloo's other projects include residential project Olympus, three TELCO offices, the headquarters of Bharat Bijlee, Mukand Iron and Steel, Sandoz, Voltas and Diners Club and Business Service centres.<ref name="Marfatia 2019"/> | ||
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[[File:Piloo Mody College of Architecture (January 2019) 3.jpg|thumb|Piloo Mody College of Architecture in [[Cuttack]]]] | [[File:Piloo Mody College of Architecture (January 2019) 3.jpg|thumb|Piloo Mody College of Architecture in [[Cuttack]]]] | ||
In political life Mody was an advocate of [[liberalism]] and freedom. | In political life Mody was an advocate of [[liberalism]] and freedom. He was associated with Swatantra Party at its founding. According to his wife Vina,{{quote|text=Piloo found designing pretty buildings unsatisfying with the country going to the dogs via the socialistic road.}}<ref name="Marfatia 2019"/> | ||
So he became a founding member of Swatantra Party.At the [[1967 Indian general election|1967 general election]] he was elected to the [[4th Lok Sabha]], representing the [[Godhra (Lok Sabha constituency)|Godhra constituency]] in [[Gujarat]]. In 1971 he was [[1971 Indian general election|re-elected]] and served in the [[5th Lok Sabha]] until March 1977. In 1972 he was instrumental in promoting the Architects' Act. In 1975, at the time of the [[Emergency in India]], Mody was arrested on the orders of the [[Indira Gandhi]] government, using the controversial powers granted by the [[Maintenance of Internal Security Act]].<ref>[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:D2iKLscJjPEJ:www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,913227-2,00.html+Piloo+Mody&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=32&gl=nz Modi was arrested]</ref> | So he became a founding member of Swatantra Party.At the [[1967 Indian general election|1967 general election]] he was elected to the [[4th Lok Sabha]], representing the [[Godhra (Lok Sabha constituency)|Godhra constituency]] in [[Gujarat]]. In 1971 he was [[1971 Indian general election|re-elected]] and served in the [[5th Lok Sabha]] until March 1977. In 1972 he was instrumental in promoting the Architects' Act. In 1975, at the time of the [[Emergency in India]], Mody was arrested on the orders of the [[Indira Gandhi]] government, using the controversial powers granted by the [[Maintenance of Internal Security Act]].<ref>[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:D2iKLscJjPEJ:www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,913227-2,00.html+Piloo+Mody&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=32&gl=nz Modi was arrested]</ref> | ||