Shyamkant Mavlankar qualified as an architect in Bombay and is recorded has enrolled on the six-month, post-graduate course held at the Architectural Association (AA) Department of Tropical Architecture, London, in 1959/60. The AA student register states that Mavlankar was attending ‘lectures only’ indicating he was not eligible to receive the Tropical Certificate at the completion of the course. He appears to have returned to India very soon after, giving an address in Nagpur. Details of his career are uncertain but it appears he entered private practice as ‘Mavlankar and Mavlankar’, based in Utkarsh, Khare Town, Nagpur, in the early 1960s. Nevertheless, he was sufficiently well respected in the field to be elected as the Founding Chairman of the Nagpur Centre of the Indian Institute of Architecture from 1973-75. His death is annually commemorated at the Nagpur Centre by the prestigious Mavlanka Memorial Lecture.

Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register, 1959-60. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Membership List, 1961.
• RIBA Journal, Vol. 70 (1963), p339
• Australia. Department of Housing and Construction (1980-06-30). Appendixes (30 June 1980). In Annual report. (355 of 1980), p75.
• Journal of the Indian Institute of Architects, Vol. 67 (2002), p20