ABSTRACT
Brinda Somaya is an acclaimed architect of India and South Asia with a prolific work portfolio. Her expansive volume of work over three decades has led to her name being associated with the league of post-independence Indian masters of architecture and the creation of a successful, multi-project practice. It includes commercial, educational, institutional, interior, corporate and conservation commissions. Somaya’s signature is the inclusion of a social element in every project, whether it is ensuring the upgrading of pavements outside the buildings of large corporate clients or designing a sustainable school by reviving age-old traditional building techniques. In 2012 she received the honorary doctorate degree from her alma mater the Smith College, Massachusetts.
