Born in Ajmer, Rajasthan, in 1966, Gurjit Singh
Matharoo graduated in architecture from the Centre
for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT),
Ahmedabad, in 1989, and then worked for a year with
Michele Arnaboldi and Giorgio Guschetti in Ticino,
Switzerland. In 1992 he began teaching at CEPT
and subsequently established his firm Matharoo
Associates, in Ahmedabad.
Matharoo Associates offers integrated design work
ranging from architecture, interior design, product
design and structural design under a single roof.
With a strength of 18-24 members, the studio's
diverse scale and nature of projects have brought
them esteemed International recognition. They were
winners of the 2011 International Architecture Award
by the Chicago Athenaeum, the 2010 Architectural
Review Best House Award only Indian Architect
to have this honour and the 2009 AR Emerging
Architecture Award, to name a few. They have also
been invited as participants in the 2016 and 2018
International Architecture Biennales in Venice.