Brinda Somaya

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I have built in every part of my own country, and that’s been my greatest fulfilment.”

An architect and urban conservationist, Brinda Somaya completed her Bachelor of Architecture degree from Mumbai University and her Master of Arts from Smith College in Northampton, MA, USA. Thereafter, she started her practice, Somaya and Kalappa Consultants (SNK), in 1975, in Mumbai, India with a belief that development and progress must proceed without straining the cultural and historic environment. For over three decades, Ar. Somaya has merged architecture, conservation and social equity in projects ranging from institutional campuses and rehabilitation of an earthquake-torn village, to the restoration of an 18th-century Cathedral, showing that progress and history need not be at odds.