Sudhir Patker gained a BArch degree in Bombay (now Mumbai) by 1960 and is then recorded as enrolled in the 1962-63 postgraduate course run by the Architectural Association’s (AA) Department of Tropical Architecture, in London. He graduated in 1963 with the postgraduate Certificate and one of his joint projects (with fellow students), for a school in Delhi, was published in the April issue of the AA Journal of that year. On returning to India, he was employed by the well-established Mumbai firm of ‘Sykes, Patker and Divecha’, Sudhir possibly being related to one of the founders. Sudhir remained with the firm until at least 1979.

 Sources

• Architectural Association Council Minutes, 13th February, 1963. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Membership List / Register, Architectural Association, 1969, 1974, 1979
• Architectural Association Journal, April 1963, pp302-309