Sunita Kohli is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Sunita Kohli as Indian architect.
Sunita Kohli was born at Lahore in 1946. Her recorded nationality is India. She trained at University of Lucknow and Lady Shri Ram College for Women.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
She is recorded as architect.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: Padma Shri in arts.
That the work was built in India shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Achievements
- Padma Shri in arts
- Trained at University of Lucknow and Lady Shri Ram College for Women
