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Uncommon card · Arts
B. V. Doshi, an Uncommon card
Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi was an Indian architect.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 69
- Power
- 135
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 32,000
Power 135 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
B. V. Doshi quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the B. V. Doshi card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Having worked under Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, he was a pioneer of ______ and brutalist architecture in India.
Answer
modernist. Having worked under Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, he was a pioneer of modernist and brutalist architecture in India. From the B. V. Doshi article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Tran Anh Hung. Tran Anh Hung 76 · Pridi Banomyong 73 · Chris Barber 69 · B. V. Doshi 66 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is an important figure in Indian architecture and noted for his contributions to the evolution of architectural discourse in India.
- Having worked under Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, he was a pioneer of modernist and brutalist architecture in India.
- His noteworthy designs include FLAME University, IIM Bangalore, IIM Udaipur, NIFT Delhi, Amdavad ni Gufa, CEPT University, and the Aranya Low Cost Housing development in Indore for which was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The B. V. Doshi article was read about 32,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 69: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get B. V. Doshi
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below B. V. Doshi in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Pridi BanomyongUncommon · History · ATK 73 DEF 62
- BirgunjUncommon · Society · ATK 71 DEF 64
- Jaroslav HašekUncommon · History · ATK 73 DEF 62
- Charles Le BrunUncommon · History · ATK 68 DEF 67
- Danny AhnUncommon · Arts · ATK 74 DEF 61
- Ernst ChladniUncommon · Science · ATK 70 DEF 65
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, B. V. Doshi (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Sanyam Bahga, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
