Architect Nari Gandhi questioned all the
basic assumptions about form that architects
and lay people take for granted
Adil Jussawalla
Adil Jussawalla interviewed Nari Gandhi in 1975 for a publication that failed to take off. The interview remained unpublished to date when Jussawalla offered it to Parsiana. Gandhi died in a motorcar accident in 1993, aged 59.
Nari Gandhi didn’t relish publicity. Nor was he willing as an architect and a designer, to reach the kind of compromises with his clients that led to anything other than what he believed was right. This might explain why an awareness of his work was slow to grow in professional circles, and why clients were slow to come.
There can be no lukewarm reaction to......