Salil Kumar Dutta is recorded as an Indian student enrolled on the 1967-68 postgraduate ‘Housing Course’ run by the Architectural Association’s (AA) Department of Development and Tropical Studies, in London. He successfully completed the course and was formally awarded the AA Diploma in Tropical Studies in July 1968. Details of his earlier education and subsequent career are not yet known to us beyond the fact that someone with his name was living in the Indian Student’s Hostel, in Fitzroy Square, London, in 1968, but by 1969 his address was registered with the AA as being on the Sirdar Shankar Road, Kolkata.

Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register, 1945-71. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Council Minutes, 22nd July, 1968. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Membership Register, 1969. AA Archives
• London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; Electoral Registers; Reference: GLC/PER/B/3343