Concrete, like brick, is almost always politely covered with other
finishes in buildings. So, it took an unusual client-architect team to
build a house in reinforced cement concrete that actually shows what it
is made of, on every square inch, both inside and out. This is unusual
even in Ahmedabad, where the house featured here is located, with its
heritage of exposed concrete buildings by Le Corbusier. The client,
Ashok Patel, and the architect, Gurjit Singh Matharoo, had worked
together earlier on another exposed concrete building. When Patel
decided to build his own house, he wanted it to be only in exposed concrete

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