Vinayak Anant Pradhan is recorded as an Indian student enrolled on the Architectural Association’s Department of Tropical Studies postgraduate course for 1963-64. He is listed as having applied for ‘lectures only’ meaning that he was auditing the course and so not eligible to receive the Department of Tropical Studies Certificate. Details of his earlier education and subsequent career are not yet known to us but he was still in London in 1965, when he is recorded living at an address on Parliament Hill, together with his Department of Tropical Studies classmate, Ashok Kulkarni.

Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register, 1945-71. AA Archives
• London Metropolitan Archives; London, UK; Electoral Registers; Reference: Lcc/Per/B/3022
• Kalendar of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1961, p177.