In Ahmedabad I was staying at the house of architects Nimish Patel and Parul Zahervi and would travel into the old city by auto rickshaw. These little green and yellow vehicles dart through the bigger traffic of trucks and cars and are incredibly cheap. I drew a street full of auto rickshaws from the city's oldest mosque. The annual kite festival was on and small kids were on every rooftop flying brightly coloured kites. I also visited the Calico Museum which houses a beautiful collection of fabrics collected by the Sarabhai family who also brought Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier to Ahmedabad to design key buildings. They also encouraged the Indian Government to get Charles and Ray Eames to come to India to look at Indian craft and ways to keep these traditions going. The old city is filled with remnants of old walls and 400-year-old mosques.
i love this auto sketch !! i think the way it is depicted is really interesting :)
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