SHEILA SRI PRAKASH Regarded as a child prodigy from a young age for her aptitude for the Arts , Sheila Sri Prakash founded Shilpa Architects in 1979 ; she was the first woman in India to have started and operated her own architectural firm . Known widely for her versatility in architecture , Sri Prakash has completed over 1200 projects throughout her career and has been recipient of many awards , namely being named in the 50 most influential names in Architecture and Design in 2015 by Architectural Digest and within the Top 100 architects in the world by the prestigious Il Giornale dell ’ Architettura . Sri Prakash invited to enhance the sustainability of the Olympics Infrastructure at the London 2012 Games , and her recommendations to the United Nations 2012 Rio + 20 Summit in Brazil have been adopted in the mandate for Sustainability presented to heads of nations . She also spoke at the Global Green Summit by Bloomberg in Singapore as a breakthrough thinker for her pioneering work on the Reciprocal Design Index that she developed at the World Economic Forum .

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