Vagish Naganur, who was an architect in our office for many years has been writing some short stories about our practice and an excerpt from the story ‘Riding The Curve’ is below. It describes how Gurjit relies on manual sketching techniques and is wary of those made on the computer.

Contractors could never achieve all flexible shapes & slaloms that G (Gurjit) had fantasized from his F1 addiction. Smooth riders call it ‘Riding the curve’. – Forget execution, drawing his fancy curves itself is not an easy task. After many years of frustration, he had long concluded that computers are no match for the hands-on ones inspired by feline figures. They ask for too many parameters and lack tactility and intuition. While drawing some of his sinuous designs, I too had to go through this punishment of sorts to draw even a simple curve. He pulls out any thin object like a steel edge or an acrylic strip that is flexible but has tension like that of a bow, puts it across 3 points asks me ‘Hold it still! Don’t move’, I am as tense as the strip, he would come charged, loosening himself, adjusting his body to the height of the drawing board & in one swift move of the pen, the curve would be planted. He would then stand back and celebrate how he had captured the limit of that material in tension, I would say, ‘Add my tension as well!’ Bent steel edges, broken wooden beadings and snapped acrylic strips in the studio are innocent victims of this bizarre ritual. Thankfully I was now a witness, not a culprit.