Kuldip Chand Kambo, born in 1933, is recorded as an Indian student enrolled on the 1968-69 postgraduate programme run by the Architectural Association’s Department of Development and Tropical Studies, in London. It is not clear from the archival record whether he completed the course but the following year he is documented as studying in the AA's Planning and Urban Design programme and receiving their postgraduate diploma in 1971. He appears to have returned to India following his graduation and by 1980 was also a Fellow of Institute of Town Planners in India. A 1987 issue of the Indian Gazette lists him as a professor at the Department of Architecture and Planning at the University of Roorkee, in Uttarakhand (today the Indian Institute of Technology at Roorkee). In 2017-18, he gave a donation to the institution to set up an award – an initiative under the name of “Smt. Kailash Kambo Nasa IIT-R Fund” – which is given to students achieving the highest CGPA (cumulative grade point average) amongst B.Arch graduates in architecture.

Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register 1945‐1972, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Diploma Roll Book, 1964-75, AA Archives  
• Journal of Institute of Town Planners, India, Issues 103-106, 1980
• The Gazette of India, No. 19, New Delhi, Saturday, May 9, 1987, pg 2059
• Annual Report 2017-18, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India – 247667
• Donors and Donations, Indian Institue of Technology Roorkee, https://iitrdora.iitr.ac.in/news/ypages/list_donor.php, accessed 2 August 2025