Deepak Kulkarni was born in Bombay in 1939 and is recorded as having enrolled in the postgraduate course run by the Architectural Association’s (AA) Department of Tropical Studies in 1963-63. He successfully completed the course, with one of his projects, for a school in Delhi (jointly authored with fellow students) being published in the AA Journal of April 1963. Shortly after graduating, he appears to have studied at the University of Liverpool, where he gained an MArch in 1965. A November 1965 report in the Indian published Civic Affairs mentions that he had been researching prefabrication systems in the hope of applying them when he intended to return to India in 1967. The same article also notes that Kulkarni was commissioned by a local developer to design a £2,250,000 project for a two-storey motel, pyramid-shaped casino and service station at St Helens, near Liverpool. It is not known whether this project passed the planning application stage and details of Kulkarni’s subsequent career are not yet known to us.

Sources

• Architectural Association Council Minutes, 13th February, 1963. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Journal, 78, no. 871 (April 1963), pp.27, 312–13
• ‘Indian Architectural Student’s Work Acclaimed in UK’ Civic Affairs, Vol. 13, November 1965, pp.6-7