ABSTRACT

Suhasini Ayer-Guigan, popularly known as Suhasini Ayer, belongs to south India spent about 12 years in Rajkot in Gujarat while growing up. Her father was a government officer and mother a homemaker. As a student, while cycling to school, construction sites caught her interest. That was the early 1970s, when Gujarat and the whole of India was witnessing a boom in construction business. This interest later led her to study architecture. While in Rajkot, she had enrolled in art classes with college students. There was a strong arts movement in Gujarat at the time, and this proved a blessing in disguise for young Ayer.