Worksheets For Budding Designers: Play Learn Create

A huge lacuna exists between the teaching and learning of theory and skills that architecture and design students learn in class, studio and other subject books. Worksheets for Budding Designers attempts to rectify that.

It is a unique activity book that takes one through basic design skills and essentials in a more direct, fun and action-oriented way. It provides a new approach to lettering, sketching and drawing, anthropometrics, colours, dimensioning, compositions, furniture layout, as well as practical aspects like cost and vernacular names of elements and techniques.

About the Author: Deepika Gandhi has over twenty years of experience in architectural pedagogy. She held the charge of Director, Le Corbusier Centre (2015–22) and was formerly Associate Professor at Chandigarh College of Architecture. She was also part of the team that prepared the dossier for the transnational serial nomination for World Heritage for the Capitol Complex, Chandigarh.

She co-authored Sukhna, Sublime Lake of Chandigarh (2009) and co edited Le Corbusier Rediscovered: Chandigarh and Beyond (2017), besides creating booklets for heritage sensitisation for schools in Chandigarh.

She supervised the restoration of the Jeanneret House, where she curated the Pierre Jeanneret Museum, Le Corbusier Centre and its canteen block, and established the Sukhna Gallery at Sukhna Lake.

She actively promotes Chandigarh’s heritage through regular articles in newspapers and as the Co-convenor of INTACH, Chandigarh and the Organising Secretary of Chandigarh Tree Lovers.

Deepika Gandhi

Deepika Gandhi, a faculty member of the Chandigarh College of Architecture since 2002, is presently the Director, Le Corbusier Centre and Chandigarh Architecture Museum. She worked on the preparation of the Dossier for the ‘World Heritage’ nomination of the Capitol Complex, Chandigarh and is actively engaged in promoting its heritage. She supervised the restoration of the erstwhile house of Pierre Jeanneret, to establish a Jeanneret Museum there and also undertook restoration of the Le Corbusier Centre for further expansion. She has co-authored the book Sukhna—Sublime Lake of Chandigarh besides authoring and designing booklets to sensitise City students about its heritage. She has published numerous papers in national and international conferences.