‘Space for people, ideas, conversations’: Architect's home studio opened to public

Overlooking narrow lanes of the Lajpat Nagar market lies an elegant exposed-brick bungalow that sits calmly in the midst of surrounding bustle.

- Snehil Sinha

The exhibition is free and open Tuesday to Sunday.

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Few, who have paused outside its facade would be aware that the structure was designed more than five decades ago by Satish Gujral as his home and studio.

On January 30, his son, Mohit Gujral opened the doors of Gujral House —as this building on Feroze Gandhi Marg is called — to the public to commemorate his father's centenary year. “Satish Gujral 100: Architecture” highlights 12 projects, including cultural spaces, embassies and institutions, using drawings, models, photographs and archival documents to demonstrate a little-known aspect of the polymath’s oeuvre.

The shift from residence and artist studio to cultural space was long-imagined and fated, Gujral said.