Sanjay Prakash is a Senior Advisor for the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), Bangalore.

The IIHS is India’s first independently funded and managed inter-disciplinary National University for Research and Innovation, addressing the challenges of urbanization through an integrated program of education, research, consulting and advisory services.

Sanjay Prakash is also Principal Consultant of his design firm, Sanjay Prakash & Associates, and was a partner of DAAT and Studio Plus, design firms that predate his current firm.

His area of practice and research over the last 30 years includes passive and low energy architecture and planning, hybrid air-conditioning, autonomous energy and water systems, bamboo and earth construction, community-based design of common property, and computer-aided design.

Sanjay Prakash was the Workshop Reporter to the plenum for “Compact city: Sustainable or just sustaining economic law?” at the 4th International Holcim Forum held in Mumbai in 2013.