Sohan Qadri Anand spontaneously supported young talent throughout India, and he became Qadri's first major patron. Anand arrived in Phagwara in 1963 with Pierre Jeanneret, an architect and cousin of the architect Le Corbusier, who acquired a painting for his collection. Anand and Jeanneret invited Qadri to bring his work to the newly built city of Chandigarh, capital of Punjab and Haryana, designed by Le Corbusier. Qadri's first exhibition was the second exhibition to be held at Gandhi Bhavan, the Punjab University Library art gallery designed by Jeanneret (the first was MF Husain's). During this time Sohan changed his last name from
Charles David (architect) Charles David (architect) Charles David (1552 – 4 December 1650) was a 16th/17th-century French architect. He married Anne Lemercier, daughter of architect Nicolas Lemercier in 1582 and succeeded his father-in-law as architect of the church of Saint-Eustache, Paris in 1585. David was responsible for the construction of the choir, which was completed in 1637. According to Paluster he was interred at St.-Eustache, with the epitaph (since effaced): Ici gist le corps d'honorable homme Charles David vivant juré du Roy es oeuvres de maçonnerie doyen des jurés et bourgeois de Paris architecte et conducteur du batiment de l'eglize de ceans lequel