The National Institute of Design opened in Ahmedabad in 1961, argued into existence by a report Charles and Ray Eames wrote for the Government of India three years earlier. What came out of it was printed matter: reports, exhibition panels, identity manuals, set on white offset stock in a Swiss grid with Latin and Devanagari carrying equal optical weight.

The Sarabhai campus that produced this work is exposed grey concrete and reinforced brick on a modular grid — the same module in three dimensions. This system takes that argument literally. The grid stays rigid; brick, indigo, turmeric and madder enter as documented craft material, sitting inside the columns rather than loosening them.