ABSTRACT
Revathi Kamath’s childhood was spent in Odisha and Bengaluru, where her grandparents had settled, and in Delhi where her parents lived. Her maiden name was Sekhar. Her father was a hydraulic engineer, who set up flood forecasting system in India. Her mother, a talented homemaker, was passionate about painting, gardening, sewing, ikebana (Japanese art of flower arrangement) and baking. Both sets of her grandparents belonged to an upper-middle-class, well-educated society. Kamath stayed with her maternal grandparents in Bengaluru from five to nine years of age. Her childhood experiences of living in nature in Odisha and with a large urbane extended family in Bengaluru influenced her towards architecture in an indirect manner.
